I Got A Free Lunch!

No because I aint got a clue what your talking about.

Glad I dont have lunch with people like that, sounds like hard work.

 

If you want some fun with statistics, get your calculator ready, and watch some adverts for beauty, cosmetics, healthcare products, read the small print that appears at the bottom, then calculate how many people actually 'agree' with what they've claimed.

One I saw earlier said 81% of 86 people. So 69.66 people then. Not that many really, but what happened to the 0.34 people out of the group of 70?

 

I tried understanding it. I couldn't. My brain hurts now
I'm glad you got the free lunch though ...

 

Christ, £20 quid for lunch.

 

I suppose that's reasonable today. I paid nearly £8 for chips and sausage in batter last week, and that was to take out.

 

The old saying 'as cheap as chips' no longer holds. I can take my wife and kids to weatherspoons for a main course, dessert and glass of pop and pay less than if we'd gone to the chippy. I discovered this one day when the queue for the chippy was a mile long and I got sick of waiting so we went to the pub instead for lunch instead.

 

Well I've been press ganged into jury service next week and I'm informed I can claim £5.71 a day for lunch.

These poor old judges, who I presume can claim the same amount, really do have to slum it.
Or are we all equal but some are more equal than others.

 

I only live 2 miles from the courts, but will probably take me 30 minutes to get there on a good day.
They sent me a letter saying "we will NOT pay parking charges" and people should use the park and ride, both park and ride sites closed years ago, one is now a retail site.
So I called them and they said they will pay parking charges and that's "just an old letter".

If I could walk there I would but just the distance from the nearest car park enough for me these days.
To cover the 2 mile journey would mean using two buses, and then they wonder why nobody uses public transport.

 

Yeah I bet it was good.
I had an £18 fish and chips lunch on my birthday.

 

With great respect @shiney , your examples were not examples of statistics, but just pure maths. Considering that it got you a free lunch, well worth the slightly differently angled set of proof you provided

To mix the pudding up further, don't we all love probabilities? If you toss a (regular) coin 9 times and always get heads, what is the probability that the tenth toss will be a tail?

Yes, I do have direct debit for national lottery, that's probably the best outcome of my course of probabilities in Uni where the main focus was on 1-2-1 sessions where the sweating professor "forgot" to switch off his computer showing rather improbable acts of procreation.

Or perhaps that was a test and I failed?