The standard deviation is 15. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... As for the statistical significance, not sure. IANAS, so I am not sure which formulas to best use to model it. According to TFA, their sample size is 718, of which 1/5 possess the gene, so intuitively I'd say that 6 points do seem significant.

If the comment systems on the internet have taught me anything, it is "if you are insulting someone in your post, make sure that your spelling and grammar are flawless".

To be fair, non-STEM-majors are taught a lot of irrelevant and useless science courses, too. It's more of a general problem with "introductory" courses for people that won't pursue that subject anymore.

You are correct in that, once housing is for free, people will find other artificial status symbols and currency dumps. But overall people will be better off, like everyone is (on average) more comfortable now than in the middle age, thanks to sanitation, heating medicine, less manual labor, and many other scientific and technical improvements.

Impopular opinion maybe, but I think the world would be a better place with more people thinking like your friend and less like you.

The summary should read

Google will no longer scan the email messages of students [...] for advertising purposes

. The Google blog post does not mention other types of scanning (neither to confirm or deny their existence, nor to announce that they will cease).

The sole use of Bitcoins are for drug addicts and drug dealers. Why would stock traders care about these people?

Indeed, I find the mere association offensive. Drug addicts and dealers are respectable people.

Is it from Sony perchance?

Is that you, beloved wife and heir of the late prince of Nigeria?

As a mathematician, the best part of it is probably asking your department to put the rifle on your research funds. I'm sorry, professor Dumoulin, you need *what*?

The website hyperionmovie.com seems to have last been updated in October 2010, and what they had there was not super substantial in the first place. My guess? Deader than the City of Poets. More dead than God's Grove or Hebron. Makes the flippin' interiors of Labyrinth worlds after the Opus Dei look positively lively.

The twitter account @hyperionmovie (probably managed by a marketing person) has seen the last activity on October last year, so let's still hope! Maybe it's only dead as a dead pope.

What happened to the Hyperion movie, by the way?

That's not double-blind. I haven't watched TFV in its entirety, but for instance @19:00 there is a violinist playing with goggles and a researcher handing her the instruments that can see clearly what is what.

Incidentally, sorry but I cannot resist: double-blind? Maybe we should say... double deaf! /ducks

So you mean they will soon get as clunky and unreliable as 2D printers?

You mean that it will take a couple weeks to decrypt a file using Javascript in IE8?

If the system is out to get you, become part of the system.

Is that you, Silvio Berlusconi?