Watch out, Mum - you want to stand back - there's a 50/50 chance that I'm going to throw up.
[pause]
Uh, oh - it just got worse. 45% that I won't throw up.
[meanwhile, in another room]
Oh, wow! look at that!
Yep, says the parent. That's one purple knuckle you've got there.
Kid, enraptured, oh - and I don't want to straighten it! See? (rotates hand back and forth, eyes wide with fascination) and it doesn't bend, either. It's - it's - the Eldest, struck by a new thought, looks up, it hurts!
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Tonight's score on the kid-o-meter: 50% chance of child self-awareness before incident. .0007% chance, going forwards. Degrees of accuracy? assuming a confidence interval of oh, not so very much, and correcting for variability in the data, um, it depends.
[pause]
Uh, oh - it just got worse. 45% that I won't throw up.
[meanwhile, in another room]
Oh, wow! look at that!
Yep, says the parent. That's one purple knuckle you've got there.
Kid, enraptured, oh - and I don't want to straighten it! See? (rotates hand back and forth, eyes wide with fascination) and it doesn't bend, either. It's - it's - the Eldest, struck by a new thought, looks up, it hurts!
*****************************
Tonight's score on the kid-o-meter: 50% chance of child self-awareness before incident. .0007% chance, going forwards. Degrees of accuracy? assuming a confidence interval of oh, not so very much, and correcting for variability in the data, um, it depends.
1 comment:
Mathily related, today's xkcd nearly made me cry.
So. Haunting. So. Beautiful.
For posterity: http://xkcd.com/881/
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