Things that make you go hmmmm

she needs to lighten up. If he kid had seen it, he wouldn't have understood it. People get wound up over nothing in this country. 

I really object to that Tegal.  How dare you presume this about me??

For neighbors there is a big difference between the runty Romanians and the hung Hungarians

How Hardnews spends his evenings - googling maps of penis sizes in Europe?

No data for Lithuania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Moldova?

No surprises there, the French being the biggest cocks of all.

Paid to have some posts, on Western Sahara,  promoted on Facebook. $10 and  the message 'reached' 5000 people. Of that I got five likes and two shares. 

Woo hoo...  


hmm.....

Bradford fire may have been an insurance job.

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/th...

Seen that footage more times than I care to remember being at times a H&S rep.

Wow!

What a cod!

Not saying he did, seems unlikely. But stranger things have happened.

Like our forum a good mix of opinions

https://claretandbanter.uk/threads/wtf-breaking-news-on-guardian-website-heginbotham-linked-to-earlier-fires.44550/page-4

Whipped?

"Every vagina is home to hundreds of different types of bacteria," PhD student Cecilia Westbrook told her audience at the University of Wisconsin, "the dominant one being lactobacillus. These are probiotic, friendly bacteria that keep our intestines healthy, and they also happen to be what people use to turn milk into cheese and yoghurt, so I thought I'd use my own natural flora to make vagina yoghurt. I collected a sample of my lactobacillus with a  wooden spoon to use as my starter culture and overnight I created the world's first bowlfull of vaginal yogurt. It tasted sour, tangy, almost tingly on the tongue, rather like an Indian yoghurt. I ate it with some blueberries. It was delicious..

Microbiologist Larry Forney said, "I like what she's doing in principle, but it's risky, because she doesn't know what else she's collecting, and she could end up with a bad batch..

Theresea Eiesenman of the US Food and Drug Administration added, "A food product that contains vaginal secretions or other bodily fluids is considered adulterated, and cannot be sold to the public."

- latest Private Eye: Funny Old World.

So if you got the vaginal secretions of an old lady and turned it into yoghurt would it been highly rated like Stilton? 

Starts writing business plan....

The latest DOTlovesdata analysis. Are these guys serious?

No idea what it is.

so what is it? I refuse to google it.

Its on the front page FT.

Is it causation or correlation- we play better when more people turn up, but that could be because people are turning up as a result of us playing better? And we complete more passes when we have a bigger croud - that could be because we get worse crouds when it rains and it's harder to complete passes in bad weather.

To say something like 'if 147 more people turn up, Krishna has more shots at goal' its totally unrelated. Its spurious correlation.

http://www.tylervigen.com/

Totally. Yeah, Ive linked to that tylervigen site elsewhere, its great for pointing out the limits of drawing meaning from correlations. Having said that, no doubt loud home crouds help teams. I'm not sure how quantifiable the effect is though.

For every extra 100 punters through the gate (paying adult prices, not kids, and sitting in the gold zone), The Nix get an extra corner.

"Wotevs" Chris Greenacre is reported to have said, "Do I look bovvered?"

For every additional 164 people, Roy Krishna has an extra touch .... for every additional 200 people, Roly B has an extra touch .... for every additional 2,500 people Roly B has an extra shot on goal ... the data is quite conclusive ... "We are really excited at what DOTdatablah are doing for us" - David Dome...

Jesus wept, you couldn't make it up! Well, actually...

Yep they really needed to account those things into any analysis. And they could have, it just would've made it all quite complicated - but isn't that what they're getting paid to do? It all Seems really 1 dimensional and obvious (and without context as you suggest) to be worth taking too seriously. 

Ok so here is another thing for you to contemplate:

If no one turns up, does Krishna touch the ball at all?

When you understand the stupidity of that statement, then you understand the stupidity of the entire press release and subsequent research.

What about if an extra 16,000 turn up, e.g. semi-final day. And he never lets go the fudgeing ball!

Isn't that like one of those zen sayings like "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound'?

Of course he would. He would have a base number of touches, then every 2000 people (or whatever it was) in the croud would result in 1 extra touch on top of that. 

Fark me someone tell me they didnt pay for that rubbish -please.

I think it's an interesting thing to try and measure - if done correctly. 

Bless. Next thing we'll be asked/monitored erection length to validate/invalidate feminine satisfaction levels.

Fixed.

Perhaps but he is correct.

Please explain to me the direct relationship between more people in the stadium means Roy gets more touches. There is absolutely none unless those people are all shouting at the players 'Pass to Roy" and the players all listen. The croud can not make these phenomena happen cause they are not participants in the game, just watchers.

Its purely a coincidental effect, not an outcomes based application of behaviour based on volume of croud. If more people are there, does that mean Moss makes less saves? How has that worked out against Melbourne and Sydney at home? Also do these "stats" take into account that no two opposition teams are the same and that no two Phoenix performances are the same? Form and fluctuations? The whole thing is absolute fudgeing garbage and to suggest players touch the ball more or shoot more as a direct effect of more people in the stadium, well you need a frontal lobotomy and here, I have a bridge I can sell you too. Waitakere City got dicked last weekend 10-0. Was that the crouds fault? No, its cause they are a fudgeing awful football team and 10 million people watching would not have changed that result.

There is however the broad application of the unscientific position that you play better at home than you will away and again, you will play better at home with more atmosphere. If the Phoenix are really paying to find that out, then they need their heads read... well they need their heads read anyway for throwing good money away.

you went from "it makes no sense/is complete rubbish" to "if the Phoenix don't already know this then they need to get their heads read"

I'm not saying it does or doesn't make a difference. I'm saying itd be interesting to use data to find out if it does and if so by how much - if done correctly (which I went on to say that it appears these guys haven't done it correctly as they haven't factored other things in)

I don't know if the nix have thrown any money at it, but it seems basic enough that it is probably a contra deal, where the nix and A league release these articles mentioning the company and the work they do, and the company does some (not necessarily what is published) analysis for the nix.