Showing posts with label Steven Wright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Steven Wright. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

The Humor in Confidence Intervals

My writing job involves some statistical analysis. I get to make a group presentation about confidence intervals on Thursday. Confidence intervals can be narrow. They can be wide. The ability of confidence intervals to be wide allows me to tell a Steven Wright joke:

"Some people are afraid of heights....I'm afraid of widths."