ABSTRACT

Membership in almost any profession carries with it various rewards, for which members must pay a price that includes having to laugh at weak jokes about themselves. In the case of statisticians these jokes usually take the form of references to the statistician who had 2.3 children and 1.7 divorces, or, even more hilariously, to the statistician, who placed his head in the oven and his feet in the refrigerator and reported being comfortable on the average.