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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
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− | Cueball begins telling Megan an anecdote about | + | Cueball begins telling Megan an anecdote about "a COVID model developed by two physicists." Before he can get further, Megan interrupts him with "Uh oh.", worried that an epidemiological model created by people who aren't epidemiologists could be ineffective (much like [[1570: Engineer Syllogism|a stock-trading bot created by an engineer isn't much good at making money on the stock market]]). Cueball then confirms her fears by saying that the model underestimated how many parties the students would hold. Megan facetiously wonders how a physicist could have failed to know how much college kids party, implying that physicists do not attend many parties. Cueball, representing [[Randall]], a physics major, then retorts that he "was invited to ''multiple'' parties! And attended ''both'' of them!" implying that he was only invited to two parties in all of college (which typically lasts four years), a very low number {{Citation needed}}. |
− | + | The title text admits the existence of a third party, and possibly a few more that have been forgotten. | |
− | + | A nontrivial number of colleges followed this trajectory in 2020, such as the [https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/03/909137658/university-with-model-testing-regime-doubles-down-on-discipline-amid-case-spike University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign] | |
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==Transcript== | ==Transcript== | ||
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+ | [Cueball and Megan are talking to each other.] | ||
:Cueball: Apparently some university reopened based on a COVID model developed by two physicists. | :Cueball: Apparently some university reopened based on a COVID model developed by two physicists. | ||
:Megan: Uh oh. | :Megan: Uh oh. | ||
− | + | [Cueball raises an arm slightly.] | |
:Cueball: But even their worst-case model underestimated the number of student parties and they had to shut down. | :Cueball: But even their worst-case model underestimated the number of student parties and they had to shut down. | ||
− | + | [Cueball holds up a finger.] | |
:Megan: Can't understand why someone with a physics degree would be bad at judging how often college students get invited to parties. | :Megan: Can't understand why someone with a physics degree would be bad at judging how often college students get invited to parties. | ||
:Cueball: Excuse me, I was invited to '''''multiple''''' parties. | :Cueball: Excuse me, I was invited to '''''multiple''''' parties. | ||
− | :Cueball: And attended ''both'' of them! | + | :Cueball: And attended '''''both''''' of them! |
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{{comic discussion}} | {{comic discussion}} |