2015-02-02
Original: 2015-02-02 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1: A teacher (a woman with dark hair) stands at the front of a class.
Teacher: Welcome to statistics class. Today we'll talk about the interpretation of averages.
Panel 2:
Teacher: The average person has one testicle and one ovary.
Panel 3:
Teacher: The average statistician right now has 1.2 testicles and 0.8 ovaries.
Panel 4:
Teacher: But that little bit of a testicle has been slowly shriveling up for decades now.
Panel 5:
Teacher: Meanwhile, the ovary grows ever fuller, ever more wahl, until, one day, the testicle final finally shrink down to a speck of dust and disappear.
Panel 6:
Teacher: This is about how you want more ovary. You want more, more studying women studying stats, right?
Panel 7: A student (a woman) raises her hand.
Teacher: No, I'm just making the TA uncomfortable.
Panel 8:
Student: May I be excused?
Votey:
A hand-drawn note/sign with a stern face on it.
Text (large, hand-lettered): YOU MAY NOT
Teacher: Welcome to statistics class. Today we'll talk about the interpretation of averages.
Panel 2:
Teacher: The average person has one testicle and one ovary.
Panel 3:
Teacher: The average statistician right now has 1.2 testicles and 0.8 ovaries.
Panel 4:
Teacher: But that little bit of a testicle has been slowly shriveling up for decades now.
Panel 5:
Teacher: Meanwhile, the ovary grows ever fuller, ever more wahl, until, one day, the testicle final finally shrink down to a speck of dust and disappear.
Panel 6:
Teacher: This is about how you want more ovary. You want more, more studying women studying stats, right?
Panel 7: A student (a woman) raises her hand.
Teacher: No, I'm just making the TA uncomfortable.
Panel 8:
Student: May I be excused?
Votey:
A hand-drawn note/sign with a stern face on it.
Text (large, hand-lettered): YOU MAY NOT
Alt text
An eight-panel comic. A statistics teacher (a dark-haired woman) lectures a class about the interpretation of averages. She explains that 'the average person has one testicle and one ovary,' and that 'the average statistician right now has 1.2 testicles and 0.8 ovaries.' She continues that 'that little bit of a testicle has been slowly shriveling up for decades now,' while 'meanwhile, the ovary grows ever fuller, ever more full, until, one day, the testicle finally shrinks down to a speck of dust and disappears.' She concludes 'this is about how you want more women studying stats, right?' Then she says 'No, I'm just making the TA uncomfortable.' A student raises her hand and asks 'May I be excused?' Votey: a hand-drawn note showing a stern, glaring face with large hand-lettered text reading 'YOU MAY NOT.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.