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Get the postdict mug.Describes a situation when a person with a PhD goes on a killing rampage.
A variation of going postal, but used to describe a person with a doctoral degree.
A variation of going postal, but used to describe a person with a doctoral degree.
" But of course lots of people--even Harvard grads!--suffer career setbacks, and few of them go postal (or should we say postdoctoral?). source: "Going Postdoctoral The bizarre case of Prof. Amy Bishop, Wall Street Journal Online, February 18, 2010.
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Brian Miller writes: Postdiction is an explanation after the event: the lamest and laziest form of prophecy.
In skepticism, it is considered an effect of hindsight-bias that (only afterwards) explains claimed predictions of significant events.
Happens often at race-tracks and masked wine tastings.
Larry Lockshin adds: "I knew it." Used extensively in business case studies, which often purport to cause and effect: they did this, and that happened.
It is not a predictor of outcomes for those following the claims.
In skepticism, it is considered an effect of hindsight-bias that (only afterwards) explains claimed predictions of significant events.
Happens often at race-tracks and masked wine tastings.
Larry Lockshin adds: "I knew it." Used extensively in business case studies, which often purport to cause and effect: they did this, and that happened.
It is not a predictor of outcomes for those following the claims.
A typical postdiction might be:
It was after I switched from Corn Flakes to Rice Krispies that women started to notice me. You should try Rice Krispies. They could work for you too...
It was after I switched from Corn Flakes to Rice Krispies that women started to notice me. You should try Rice Krispies. They could work for you too...
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Get the postdictable mug.Mary: "I sucked his dick off, then I had a postdicamint."
John: "She totally needed a postdicamint after sucking my cock. She had mad dick breath"
John: "She totally needed a postdicamint after sucking my cock. She had mad dick breath"
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Alice: "Sounds like quite the postdicament."
Alice: "Sounds like quite the postdicament."
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