the-satan-gene
Original: the-satan-gene on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Doctor (bald man in glasses): I'm afraid your boy has... THE SATAN GENE.
Panel 2:
Father (in orange shirt, holding a baby): MY BABY!
Panel 3:
Doctor (close-up, alarmed expression): YES! THE SATAN GENE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 0.1% OF THE VARIANCE IN EEEEEVIL!
Panel 4:
Father (holding baby): DID YOU SAY 0.1%?
Doctor: IT'S ONE GENE, DUDE! THAT'S A REALLY HIGH CORRELATION!
Votey:
A woman with a calm, half-lidded expression.
Woman: YOU MUST HAVE MULTIPLE COPIES
Doctor (bald man in glasses): I'm afraid your boy has... THE SATAN GENE.
Panel 2:
Father (in orange shirt, holding a baby): MY BABY!
Panel 3:
Doctor (close-up, alarmed expression): YES! THE SATAN GENE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 0.1% OF THE VARIANCE IN EEEEEVIL!
Panel 4:
Father (holding baby): DID YOU SAY 0.1%?
Doctor: IT'S ONE GENE, DUDE! THAT'S A REALLY HIGH CORRELATION!
Votey:
A woman with a calm, half-lidded expression.
Woman: YOU MUST HAVE MULTIPLE COPIES
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: A bald doctor in glasses speaks gravely to an off-panel parent: "I'm afraid your boy has... THE SATAN GENE." Panel 2: A worried father in an orange shirt cradles a sleeping baby and cries "MY BABY!" Panel 3: Close-up of the wide-eyed doctor exclaiming, "YES! THE SATAN GENE IS RESPONSIBLE FOR 0.1% OF THE VARIANCE IN EEEEEVIL!" Panel 4: The father, still holding the baby, asks "DID YOU SAY 0.1%?" and the doctor replies indignantly, "IT'S ONE GENE, DUDE! THAT'S A REALLY HIGH CORRELATION!" The joke skewers how a statistically tiny effect size gets dramatized as a meaningful finding. Votey (bonus panel): A calm-looking woman with half-closed eyes says, "YOU MUST HAVE MULTIPLE COPIES," deadpan-implying that the alarming gene is, in fact, common.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.