The Shroud Underground

Nathaniel Lambert · Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 12:17 am Post subject: No Bullshit

I'm a huge BS'er. There's a good chance that anything coming out of my mouth has at least been ever so slightly eschewed. You know, for the theatrics.
Well, I've probably picked the worst profession to be a professional bullshitter. I'm a scientist in training and my overeducated, over-pontificating peers won't let me get away with even an iota of a tall tale.

You could be telling a story of the consistency of your latest deposit at the porcelain king and they'll want stastitics.

"I don't think you can, with confidence, state that the consistency is as you have observed. If you ask me, it's academic. An artifact I tell you. Come back to me when you have an N number that will give you a stastical significance of around P = 0.005."

Man, spinning a tale just isn't quite the same when you have to know what the hell you're talking about.

Natalie L. Sin · Acolyte Joined: 21 Mar 2008 Posts: 29

I hang around a lot of science people. Some of them enjoy me, but I think about half are bewildered at how my better-half ended up with me. One guy actually told me "I don't read books."
Where do you take the conversation from there? Shocked

Nathaniel Lambert · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:24 am Post subject:

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