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#1131 Math As of this writing, the only thing that's 'razor-thin' or 'too close to call' is the gap between the consensus poll forecast and the result.
#1132 Frequentists vs. Bayesians 'Detector! What would the Bayesian statistician say if I asked him whether the--' [roll] 'I AM A NEUTRINO DETECTOR, NOT A LABYRINTH GUARD. SERIOUSLY, DID YOUR BRAIN FALL OUT?' [roll] '... yes.'!['Detector! What would the Bayesian statistician say if I asked him whether the--' [roll] 'I AM A NEUTRINO DETECTOR, NOT A LABYRINTH GUARD. SERIOUSLY, DID YOUR BRAIN FALL OUT?' [roll] '... yes.'](https://img.comicstation.store/comics/xkcd/1132/0.png)
#1133 Up Goer Five Another thing that is a bad problem is if you're flying toward space and the parts start to fall off your space car in the wrong order. If that happens, it means you won't go to space today, or maybe ever.
#1134 Logic Boat Or a cabbage, for that matter. The goat makes sense. Goats are fine.
#1135 Arachnoneurology SPIDER PSYCHOLOGY (21st Ed.) is a comprehensive overview of arachnoneurology, neuro-arachnology, forensic arachnology, neuro-arachnoneurology (the study of the brains of spider neurology experts), and arachnoarachnology (the study of too many spiders).
#1136 Broken Mirror 'I see you're in this mood again.' 'I am always in this mood.'
#1137 LTR Collaborative editing can quickly become a textual rap battle fought with increasingly convoluted invocations of U+202a to U+202e.
#1138 Heatmap There are also a lot of global versions of this map showing traffic to English-language websites which are indistinguishable from maps of the location of internet users who are native English speakers.
#1139 Rubber and Glue I'm rubber. You're rubber. We contemplate the reality of our existence in mute, vulcanized horror.
#1140 Calendar of Meaningful Dates In months other than September, the 11th is mentioned substantially less often than any other date. It's been that way since long before 9/11 and I have no idea why.
#1141 Two Years She won the first half of all our chemo Scrabble games, but then her IV drugs started kicking in and I *dominated*.
#1142 Coverage My resonant tunneling diode phone has limited range but a short enough wavelength to penetrate even the densest cages. This gives me a major combat advantage, hopefully.
#1143 Location Ingress: Foursquare With Space Noises.
#1144 Tags <A>: Like </a>this. 
#1145 Sky Color Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?
#1146 Honest I didn't understand what you meant. I still don't. But I'll figure it out soon!
#1147 Evolving Biologists play reverse Pokémon, trying to avoid putting any one team member on the front lines long enough for the experience to cause evolution.
#1148 Nothing to Offer cerebrospinal fluid, pericardial fluid, sputum, aqueous humor, perilymph, chyme, hydatid fluid, interstitial fluid, rheum, and gin.
#1149 Broomstick 'Broom first, then slippers.' 'How do I know you'll return the broom once you've secured your ticket?' 'I'll leave my little dog as collateral.' 'Great. Pleasure doing business!'
#1150 Instagram I'm gonna call the cops and get Chad arrested for theft, then move all my stuff to the house across the street. Hopefully the owners there are more responsible.
#1151 Tests In fact, one of the boxes is full of Staphylococcus. The wrapping paper is coated in E. coli, though, so it's an understandable mistake. You know, we should really stop accepting gifts from that guy.
#1152 Communion The local police, growing increasingly concerned about this church, ask parishioners to take a sip of wine and then spit it back out for DNA testing. It's blood, and it matches a 1970s murder victim.
#1153 Proof The prosecution calls Gottfried Leibniz.
#1154 Resolution If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.
#1155 Kolmogorov Directions People get really grumpy when they realize you're giving them directions for how to go to the store and buy a GPS.
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