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Busting the MythBusters' Yawn Experiment
markmcb writes "Most everyone knows and loves the MythBusters, two guys who attempt to set the story straight on things people just take for granted. Well, maybe everyone except Brandon Hansen, who has offered them a taste of their own medicine as he busts the MythBusters' improper use of statistics in their experiment to determine whether yawning is contagious. While the article maintains that the contagion of yawns is still a possibility, Hansen is clearly giving the MythBusters no credit for proving such a claim, 'not with a correlation coefficient of .045835.'"
*yawn*
Facinatingly detailed observations like this must go down a treat at the parties you attend Brandon Hansen.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
precise or not, reading that article sure did make me yawn...
Tonight on this episode of Mythbusters: Whoever smelt it, dealt it!
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Peter
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**yawn**
Announcer: In today's episode, Jamie and Adam test whether Slashdot poster slughead is capable of posting intelligent, insightful comments.
{Commercial break. }
{ Adam and Jamie read slughead's comment. }
{ Jamie chuckles. Adam laughs really hard, pisses his pants, and continues to laugh really hard. }
{ Commercial break. }
Announcer: BUSTED! slughead can apparently only state nothing but the blatantly obvious!
Dr. Seuss has already proved the contagion of yawns.
Get real. Everyone knows it was Adam.
pfft, more like underly critical guy.
R2-D2, Official Operator? This guy has more nerd creds than everyone in this thread put together!
Under the influence of Post-Cyberpunk Gonzo Journalism
Unfortunately, he BSs about a vast number of other kinds of E, in a manor that is less entertaining and more, assholish, often insulting other cast members or the audience.
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Heck, I yawned when I read the summary.
Uh... wait a second... this is Slashdot. Why are you reading the article!?! :-)
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1.54? Are you sure? Do you work for NASA?
The only scientifically relevant statistic for Mythbusters is that a high percentage of the audience (most of the men, and probably a significant fraction of the women) want to see them do more experiments with Kari in a body suit (ala the butt-moulding exercise).
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Wow, you are right!