Expat Laura
pearson's product moment correlation coefficient
2004-04-21 | 3:55 p.m.

Who knew inferential statistics could be so sexy?

Me: I'd love to be Mann-Whitney U'd. It sounds so naughty. Like something that involves 2 men, me and some kind of edible food. Ha! Look at this...the Spearman's Rho Correlation. Any relation to the famous 'Gentleman's Club'/Pole Dancing Haven... Spearmint Rhino d'ya think?
B: No.
Me: Darling, you could do with being a bit more Chi Squared. Chill out! Feel the Zen. I think you need a damn good Wilcock-xing. Had one lately?
B: Hun...you're the only one who has been Wilcoxed lately."

And it is true.

But back to the point. Maths is the new black. Maths is sexy! I think I can be a maths geek. 2+2 and all that. Standard deviation! Median! Mode!

We had an interesting talk today about where we could pick men up at Uni, seeing as they are so easily categorised for us. Egs: if you want someone scientist-y, brainy and who thinks logically you go hang around the Physics block. If you want an Engineer to make you a building, you go stalk that faculty. It all seems so easy! Like some kind of student pick-n-mix...or we hope so. In true Laura style I have made a demi-list of men I Need To Date At University:

- 1x Physicist
- 1x Engineer
-1x Economics and Political Scientist (when he turns into a dashing Investment Banker you'll be jealous)
-1x Farming and Agricultural Studies person (ha, no. I'd rather not).

The great thing is you'll be able to tell a little bit just by asking someone what are you studying?. The following answer will say it all - whether he's a humanities boy or a science nerd and you'll learn far more this way than by just asking hey hun, what's your name/sign/birthday/favourite sexual position?

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