Word: meaninglessness
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...morphine please" was my response to this. The nurse's relieved face looked up from the meaningless fill-ins on her clipboard. She got the drug and gave me the syringe...
...that gender was the decisive factor is inherently sexist. It is unfortunate that the selection of such a qualified individual falls in the shadow of the Summers’ statement about women in science, prompting these assumptions. However, we should not be fooled into engaging in this kind of meaningless drivel...
...will see fewer heart attacks in the statin group (about 30% fewer in one real-world trial). Reducing the risk by a third sounds like a lot, which is one reason many hundreds of thousands of men with no sign of heart disease take statins. But that number is meaningless unless you take into account the percentage of men in both groups who have heart attacks in the first place. If those people represent only a tiny fraction of the two populations, an improvement of 30% isn't much--maybe one heart attack fewer in a group of thousands...
...real yawner at the Pizz, as two bottom-half teams play out the schedule in a meaningless game. Dartmouth will win, handing Brown a ticket to visit Princeton in the cellar...
...another statistic, though. They are among the 62% of Harvard students who “alternate between alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.” Those non-alcoholic beverages are called chasers. They’re for wusses. 62% of Harvard students are big bitches. Perhaps the most absurdly meaningless statistic is the one proclaiming that “96% of Harvard students who drink eat before or while drinking.” Does this mean that 96% of Harvard students are not, in fact, anorexic and do, in fact, eat dinner? Forgive me for not being impressed. Still, this...