Accidental haiku: on human fallibility.
Jun. 5th, 2014 05:57 pmThe 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.