{"id":5382,"date":"2007-11-26T15:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T09:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2024"},"modified":"2007-11-26T15:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T09:52:00","slug":"a-contribution-to-statistics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/a-contribution-to-statistics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contribution to Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Rachna Shetty brightens up my Monday with a lovely poem I&#8217;ll share with you:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>A Contribution to Statistics<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1996\/\" title=\"Wislawa Szymborska at Nobelprize.org\">Wislawa Szymborska<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Out of a hundred people<\/p>\n<p>those who always know better<br \/>\n-fifty-two<\/p>\n<p>doubting every step<br \/>\n-nearly all the rest,<\/p>\n<p>glad to lend a hand<br \/>\nif it doesn&#8217;t take too long<br \/>\n-as high as forty-nine,<\/p>\n<p>always good<br \/>\nbecause they can&#8217;t be otherwise<br \/>\n-four, well maybe five,<\/p>\n<p>able to admire without envy<br \/>\n-eighteen,<\/p>\n<p>suffering illusions<br \/>\ninduced by fleeting youth<br \/>\n-sixty, give or take a few,<\/p>\n<p>not to be taken lightly<br \/>\n-forty and four,<\/p>\n<p>living in constant fear<br \/>\nof someone or something<br \/>\n-seventy-seven,<\/p>\n<p>capable of happiness<br \/>\n-twenty-something tops,<\/p>\n<p>harmless singly, savage in crowds<br \/>\n-half at least,<\/p>\n<p>cruel<br \/>\nwhen forced by circumstances<br \/>\n-better not to know<br \/>\neven ballpark figures,<\/p>\n<p>wise after the fact<br \/>\n-just a couple more<br \/>\nthan wise before it,<\/p>\n<p>taking only things from life<br \/>\n-thirty<br \/>\n(I wish I were wrong),<\/p>\n<p>hunched in pain,<br \/>\nno flashlight in the dark<br \/>\n-eighty-three<br \/>\nsooner or later,<\/p>\n<p>righteous<br \/>\n-thirty-five, which is a lot,<\/p>\n<p>righteous<br \/>\nand understanding<br \/>\n-three,<\/p>\n<p>worthy of compassion<br \/>\n-ninety-nine,<\/p>\n<p>mortal<br \/>\n-a hundred out of a hundred.<br \/>\nthus far this figure still remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reader Rachna Shetty brightens up my Monday with a lovely poem I&#8217;ll share with you:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><b>A Contribution to Statistics<\/b><br \/>\n<i>by <a href=\"http:\/\/nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/literature\/laureates\/1996\/\" title=\"Wislawa Szymborska at Nobelprize.org\">Wislawa Szymborska<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Out of a hundred people<\/p>\n<p>those who always know better<br \/>\n-fifty-two<\/p>\n<p>doubting every step<br \/>\n-nearly all the rest,<\/p>\n<p>glad to lend a hand<br \/>\nif it doesn&#8217;t take too long<br \/>\n-as high as forty-nine,<\/p>\n<p>always good<br \/>\nbecause they can&#8217;t be otherwise<br \/>\n-four, well maybe five,<\/p>\n<p>able to admire without envy<br \/>\n-eighteen,<\/p>\n<p>suffering illusions<br \/>\ninduced by fleeting youth<br \/>\n-sixty, give or take a few,<\/p>\n<p>not to be taken lightly<br \/>\n-forty and four,<\/p>\n<p>living in constant fear<br \/>\nof someone or something<br \/>\n-seventy-seven,<\/p>\n<p>capable of happiness<br \/>\n-twenty-something tops,<\/p>\n<p>harmless singly, savage in crowds<br \/>\n-half at least,<\/p>\n<p>cruel<br \/>\nwhen forced by circumstances<br \/>\n-better not to know<br \/>\neven ballpark figures,<\/p>\n<p>wise after the fact<br \/>\n-just a couple more<br \/>\nthan wise before it,<\/p>\n<p>taking only things from life<br \/>\n-thirty<br \/>\n(I wish I were wrong),<\/p>\n<p>hunched in pain,<br \/>\nno flashlight in the dark<br \/>\n-eighty-three<br \/>\nsooner or later,<\/p>\n<p>righteous<br \/>\n-thirty-five, which is a lot,<\/p>\n<p>righteous<br \/>\nand understanding<br \/>\n-three,<\/p>\n<p>worthy of compassion<br \/>\n-ninety-nine,<\/p>\n<p>mortal<br \/>\n-a hundred out of a hundred.<br \/>\nthus far this figure still remains unchanged.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,38],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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