<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><b>From:</b> "A Prairie Home Companion" <<a href="mailto:no-reply@americanpublicmedia.org">no-reply@americanpublicmedia.org</a>><br><b>Date:</b> October 7, 2015 at 12:50:26 AM PDT<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> <b>ADV: Today's Joke: A physicist, a chemist, and a statistician are in the college dean's waiting room ...</b><br><b>Reply-To:</b> "A Prairie Home Companion" <<a href="mailto:no-reply@americanpublicmedia.org">no-reply@americanpublicmedia.org</a>><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">


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 the statistician is running around setting fires in all the other wastebaskets. "What are you doing??" the other two scream.The statistician answers, "Trying to get an adequate sample size..."<img class="greenquotes" src="cid:(null)" width="28" height="24"> <br>
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