Early to rise
It is now my opinion that the adage “Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise” is false.
Evidence: I had to get early this morning for a Applied Probability tutorial.
Result:
- healthy: I am now coming down with a cold, which only started to manifest itself after the tutorial.
- wealthy: With international student tuition at Oxford with the US Dollar at its lowest rate compared to the Pound in the last ten years, wealthy? I think not!
- wise: According to this study, recently published in a highly respected serial, grad school actually makes you dumber.
The alternative conclusion would be that statistics is bad for your health, but I’m scared of what will happen to me if I make that conclusion.
Comment by Cecilia
My biostat study group is going to kick your butt if you keep saying mean things about statistics. We’re all walking a fine line between sanity and a mental breakdown right now so you don’t want to mess with us.
