2014-09-17
Original: 2014-09-17 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1 (single panel):
A balding man with glasses sits beside a young child, reading aloud from a large green storybook open on his lap. The child looks up at him with a flat, unimpressed expression.
Man: "AFTER NINETEEN ADDITIONAL TRIALS, OF COURSE, THE RESULTS WERE SHOWN TO BE ANOMALOUS."
Caption (below panel): "The Tortoise And The Hare" is actually a fable about small sample sizes.
Votey:
A mostly blank panel with small handwritten text in the center: "p<.05"
A balding man with glasses sits beside a young child, reading aloud from a large green storybook open on his lap. The child looks up at him with a flat, unimpressed expression.
Man: "AFTER NINETEEN ADDITIONAL TRIALS, OF COURSE, THE RESULTS WERE SHOWN TO BE ANOMALOUS."
Caption (below panel): "The Tortoise And The Hare" is actually a fable about small sample sizes.
Votey:
A mostly blank panel with small handwritten text in the center: "p<.05"
Alt text
A balding bespectacled man reads a large green storybook aloud to a young child sitting next to him. He says, "After nineteen additional trials, of course, the results were shown to be anomalous." The child stares up at him with a flat, deadpan expression. A caption below reads: "The Tortoise And The Hare" is actually a fable about small sample sizes. The joke reframes the classic fable's single slow-tortoise-beats-fast-hare outcome as a statistically meaningless result drawn from one trial. Votey (aftercomic): a nearly empty panel with the tiny handwritten note "p<.05" floating in the center, mocking the statistical-significance threshold.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.