Everybody has a story about that one witty teacher or professor who totally pulled one over on the class, and one economics professor just went viral with his own little inside joke.
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The unnamed doctor wore a shirt joking, “There are two types of people in this world: 1.) those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.“ And, if you can’t guess the second type, then you might just be one of them.
https://twitter.com/KSBoswell/status/913444594641141760
Twitter user Kimberly Boswell posted a photo of the shirt and wrote that two of her classmates (who apparently can’t extrapolate from incomplete data) asked if the shirt was missing a second part. As a helpful bit of background, “extrapolate” is defined as “to infer from data already known.”
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Of course, the internet had a field day poking fun at the students who didn’t get the joke; especially when Kimberly explained that this is a post-graduate economics class.
https://twitter.com/KSBoswell/status/913450860562272262
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There were more than few Twitter users who pointed out that the future economists of the world don’t seem too promising.
https://twitter.com/ThomboyD/status/913597746283667456
I saw that earlier.
I weep for our future.
— 🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ (@snipeyhead) September 29, 2017
Hopefully, they’re a lot better at crunching numbers than they are at drawing conclusions i.e. extrapolating.
H/T – Twitter Moments