Elephantstrunk

From the Telegraph:

Barcelona (0) 2 Arsenal (1) 1
Europe’s dream final dissolved into a nightmare for Arsenal last night. Depleted when Jens Lehmann was dismissed early, Arsenal’s stout hearts drew on all their famous reserves of resilience to lead through Sol Campbell, but Barcelona’s elegant zephyrs responded in style, snatching victory late on. Samuel Eto’o and […]

I hope Tyler Cowen reads numbers better than he reads survey results!

On the one hand: The mean is golden
On the other: There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Come to think of it people who look completely average are so uncommon as to be strange and I think the averagers are stacking the deck. It didn’t work exactly like that […]