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    Teaching the beavers to use a microwave oven was of less benefit to the regional ecology than had been hoped for.

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    How to lie with statistics.

    First, log log scale.

    Second, we know variance will scale with the mean, so they should have plotted against the coefficient of variation (sigma/ mu).

    Other wise they’d have us believing that there are either 1000 turds in the microwave or none.

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    Puzzled BC wildlife ecologist can’t keep the bears from shitting in his microwave at night, further research is needed.