Accidental haiku: on human fallibility.
Jun. 5th, 2014 05:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
full_metal_oxThe following passage comes from page 138 of Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers by Charles Seife. The source is an anonymous statistician, the context is a discussion of disputed elections, and the formatting is my own.
Humans counting things:
I don't care what the things are--
They're going to be off.
Humans counting things:
I don't care what the things are--
They're going to be off.