- Females equal to men in math skills. (From Mark.)
- OK Cupid takes on stereotypes with their analysis of gay sex vs. straight sex.
- We missed Kirk Cameron’s birthday yesterday. Here, let’s make up for it.
- Dr. Bob Sears and Fox Friends. (From Donnie.)
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Most people in general are better than math than I am. Gender seem sirrelevant, in my case. :-D
@QuestionAuthority: I multiply this. Or add this. Something to do with numbers, that indicates a general agreement with the aforementioned statement. S… something….
I heard about opening bananas that way a couple weeks ago. I started doing it with my morning banana, and it is a heck of a lot easier to manage.
@QuestionAuthority: @Zapski:
This.
I still count on my fingers and draw little diagrams to help me. Algebra 2 was almost the death of me. Geometry was a little better since I was able to draw little pictures that helped.
‘Dr. Bob Sears and Fox Friends’ reads like some cruddy local tv show for kids. Was it followed by ‘The Uncle Floyd Show’?
Kirk’s birthday was yesterday?
And me without my crocoduck shaped cake.
Oh, OKCupid, your selection bias makes your “analysis” completely useless…
The best part of that OK Cupid article would have to be when they refer to Bobby Jindal as an “openly-Indian man.” Very funny.
That said, I hope he serves as an inspiration for all of the closeted Indian men out there. YOU HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE!
Well, shit. It appears I was born on the same day and year as Kirk Cameron.
I guess that video shows that monkeys are smarter than Kirk Cameron. (Also smarter than me – I’ve been opening bananas from the stem up until now)
Dr Bob and his Fox Friends should have been posted in last Friday’s Quickies along with http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/interspecies-friends since aquatic birds and foxes don’t usually get along.
If I had any artistic ability at all, I think it would make a cute animated cartoon.
@Rei Malebario: Happy Birthday! And ditto on the banana thing.
@zapski
@skep_artist
I barely survived College Algebra. ;-)
Being only a delicate flower of a female, with a brain unsuited to all that mathematical stuff, I just couldn’t do any better in maths than A’s and got a mere 800 on the Math II SAT. [fluttering lashes]. So it was no wonder that my teachers kept telling me that I was no good at all that addin’ and subtractin’ and Riemann zeta functionin’. [fanning self to prevent swoon]
@QuestionAuthority: Thank you! Too often, it seems that it is expected that a skeptic should be a maths guru. I seriously SUCK AT maths. ‘Course, I ended up in an industry that uses geometry, so >_<
Oh! And I’ve been opening the banana the creationist way?! Oh noes!
@QuestionAuthority: That’s OK. I barely survived graduate level abstract algebra (more of a continuum person).
@BeardofPants: Math + me = suckX3
It’s literature I don’t get.
I like the OK Cupid game – replace “homosexual” and “gay” with “politician”.
My grandfather told me that a
homosexualpolitician would sell out his country in a heartbeat.GaysPoliticians shouldn’t be allowed to parent, because they will raisegaypolitian children.People aren’t born
gaypolitians, so thegayspoliticians have to recruit.Being
gaya polititian is a choice.@QuestionAuthority: I survived College Algebra. I failed three times, but I eventually survived it.
I didn’t hear the ‘girls suck at math’ stuff until long after high school, but maybe because I’m a guy. My grade 12 math class was about 60% female, and I was the only male in the top 5. Uni was so different. There were only a smattering of females after first year.
The bizarre part is tha in High School, I had the strangest Geomerty grades the teacher had ever seen…A, A, F, F. I did very well on proofs, but the Algebra…no way. LOL
I find the OkCupid stuff fascinating. Sure it’s not representative of the population as a whole, but that doesn’t make it useless. It just means it’s not conclusive.
I find it especially interesting that gay/straight sexual activity maps perfectly, except that for some reason the top 2% of gay men have had 26% of the sexual partners. What’s going on there?
I seem to identify best with the interests and personality types of gay women.
@banyan: That one’s pretty simple: Some men are whores.
Tried the monkey banana method this morning. It worked okay, kind of smooshed the end a little, but it split and peeled nicely. I think I need more practice. I’ll try it again tomorrow. Or maybe switch back and forth on alternate days. Being a guy, I should have no problem developing a good statistical analysis of my data. Or if I run into problems, I can just ask my niece, who <brag> aced AP statistics last year (as a high school junior…) She’s also captain of her high school soccer team and is being recruited by the MIT soccer coach… </brag>.