The act of flying a Blackhawk helicopter whilst erratically changing altitudes and airspeeds causing difficulty for subsequent chalks to maintain any type of formation flight that would resemble that of a professional Army/Navy/Air Force Aviator.
by CoCWOO July 26, 2019
Get the Hawking mug.Manipulation of statistics such that the desired outcome assumes "statistical significance", usually for the benefit of the study's sponsors. Usually done by ex post facto choice of significance labels and simple reporting of results as being conclusive regardless of calculated p-value. This depends on the public's general lack of understanding of statistical measures and press non-reportage of details.
Also the basis of nutrition research.
Also the basis of nutrition research.
Study: "Soy protein was shown to reduce cancer rates in rats with a p <1.0" (effectively random data)
Next day's headline: "Soy Cures Cancer"
Sales soar 1000%
p-hacking = Profit.
Next day's headline: "Soy Cures Cancer"
Sales soar 1000%
p-hacking = Profit.
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the bad part about having virtual sex is that it can cost you all your virtual money speaks for itself.
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Get the the bad part about having virtual sex is that it can cost you all your virtual money mug.Jonathan K. Businessman, having a normal one, released a string of dozens of tweets today repeatedly denying that he was was a furry, was involved in securities fraud, or was in any addicted to tentacle porn. The tweets, phrased in Elizabethan English, compared the S.E.C. to the Horned King, a character from the Disney movie "The Black Cauldron."
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Get the Having Motion mug.Sneak away to meet your mistress. ("Hiking the Appalachian Trail" is the first explanation of where South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford was when he disappeared.)
"Has anyone seen Jawann? I've been calling and texting him for three days and he's not answering."
"Uh, he's hiking the Appalachian Trail."
"Oh. Got it."
"Uh, he's hiking the Appalachian Trail."
"Oh. Got it."
by Frankie Fiveangels June 26, 2009
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Hacking the jackoff shouldn't be too hard, his mind is shockingly simple, driven entirely by ego gratification and compensation.
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