{"id":146,"date":"2008-08-29T00:43:49","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T04:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=146"},"modified":"2008-08-29T00:43:49","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T04:43:49","slug":"first-night-in-princeton-funny-social-scientist-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/?p=146","title":{"rendered":"First night in Princeton, funny social scientist joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jumbojoke.com\/the_fire_at_the_university_1702.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three professors &#8212; a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician &#8212; are at a department head meeting when a fire breaks out in a wastebasket.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"more\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"entrygoogle\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\">&lt;!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3873347697860878\";\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"4315036318\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/--&gt;\n<\/script> <script style=\"display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\n<\/script><\/div>\n<p>The physicist says, &#8220;I know what to do! We must cool down the materials until their temperature is lower than their ignition temperature and then the fire will go out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The chemist says, &#8220;No! No! I know what to do! We must cut off the supply of oxygen so that the fire will go out due to lack of one of the reactants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the physicist and the chemist debate what to do, the statistician runs around the room lighting more fires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are you doing?!&#8221; the physicist and the chemist scream.<\/p>\n<p>The statistician replies, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to need a larger sample size.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source Three professors &#8212; a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician &#8212; are at a department head meeting when a fire breaks out in a wastebasket. The physicist says, &#8220;I know what to do! We must cool down the materials until their temperature is lower than their ignition temperature and then the fire will go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-steve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}