Distraction

I don’t particularly feel like listening to my professor right now. I know, I know – you’re judging me already. You would be paying rapt attention to his animated explanation of row and column percentages and avidly examining his graph of the extremely pertinent and serious topic of how many freshmen, sophomores, juniors, and seniors eat cat food. What could be more relevant to any ambitious student’s higher education? *rolls eyes*

At least I get amazingly amusing quotes from this guy. It makes up for his annoying cockiness and complicated quiz questions, at least to some degree. “For nominal level data, we’ll use the example of religion, so you could have categories such as Jews, Baptists, Catholics, Muslims, Atheists, etc, and you either fit in one or the other. Now, you can’t perform mathematical operations on nominal level data; they’re simply labels, or categories. That means you can’t subtract a Baptist from a Jew and get a Catholic. I know you might have thought you could, but you can’t.” Or… “How would you be able to collect data about revolutionaries in Mexico? (Marshall: “I can’t think of a safe way.”) Well, I wasn’t talking about a safe way. That’s what grad students are for.”

Don’t worry; I’m not going to fail this class. I’m half listening at the moment, and I already learned this material in my Poli Stats class last semester. Well, I’m assuming you care. If not, that’s just fyi.

LOL He just told us about a random statistical discovery he made. Evidently, Hispanics do not settle near clusters of mobile homes. Where you find great concentrations of mobile homes, you do not find Hispanic populations. So, my thoughts are…if we start replacing American buildings with mobile home compounds, we will have automatically solved our illegal immigration problem. They’ll just leave. Wow, I knew the South was good for something.

Yay, lunchtime!