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...sober enough to think for ourselves. Ergo, I present to you the Anonymity-Sketchiness Ratio, easily remembered as the ASR. In order for your action to not be sketchy, its anonymity must be as high as possible relative to its sketchiness. For those of you still in Math Xa, anonymity goes in the numerator and sketchiness goes in the denominator. Higher numbers are good: it means your witnesses don’t know or care who you are. Lower numbers are bad: it’s like posting to your news feed—everyone will know.Assume...
...have fun when our nightly shenanigans invariably turn into breakfast table gossip? Should you get up on that table? Should you make out with that girl who’s suddenly cute after 1 a.m.? For the first time ever, the answer to your questions is math...
...sober enough to think for ourselves. Ergo, I present to you the Anonymity-Sketchiness Ratio, easily remembered as the ASR. In order for your action to not be sketchy, its anonymity must be as high as possible relative to its sketchiness. For those of you still in Math Xa, anonymity goes in the numerator and sketchiness goes in the denominator. Higher numbers are good: it means your witnesses don’t know or care who you are. Lower numbers are bad: it’s like posting to your news feed—everyone will know...
Sailor by day, math teacher, Washington defense analyst, technical consultant in Saudi Arabia, and writer for the Dukakis campaign by night...
...posting proudly proclaims that of the 160,000 times the ad was viewed, it was clicked on by 163 people. In case we don't feel up to doing the math, HCL lets us know that this transfers to a click through rate of 0.10 percent. The library views the ad as a success, citing 0.04 percent as the click-through rate "that is typically considered successful in direct mail and online" and calling it "'a highly efficient and cost-effective way of communicating with our students,'” in the words of Michael Hemment, Head of Research...