tail
Original: tail on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A man with dark curly hair, sunglasses, and a suit holds up a handheld graphing calculator triumphantly, as if it were a phone showing off at a club.
Man: YEAH! SHAKE THAT FAT TAIL, BABY!
Caption (below panel): This is how statisticians celebrate rare events.
Votey:
No dialogue. A statistical distribution curve is drawn as a long, low-spreading shape with a pronounced long "fat tail" extending to the right. Numbers are scrawled along the bottom of the curve (resembling axis tick marks / data values, e.g. "5 2 0 8 2").
A man with dark curly hair, sunglasses, and a suit holds up a handheld graphing calculator triumphantly, as if it were a phone showing off at a club.
Man: YEAH! SHAKE THAT FAT TAIL, BABY!
Caption (below panel): This is how statisticians celebrate rare events.
Votey:
No dialogue. A statistical distribution curve is drawn as a long, low-spreading shape with a pronounced long "fat tail" extending to the right. Numbers are scrawled along the bottom of the curve (resembling axis tick marks / data values, e.g. "5 2 0 8 2").
Alt text
A man in a suit with dark curly hair and sunglasses grins and holds up a handheld graphing calculator high in the air like he's showing it off at a party, shouting "YEAH! SHAKE THAT FAT TAIL, BABY!" The caption below reads: "This is how statisticians celebrate rare events." The joke plays on "fat tail," a statistics term for a probability distribution where extreme/rare events are more likely than normal, treated here like a club hype-line. Votey: a hand-drawn statistical distribution curve with a long, drawn-out "fat tail" stretching to the right, with numbers scribbled along its bottom edge like axis values.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.