GARY C. RAMSEYER'S FIRST INTERNET GALLERY OF STATISTICS JOKES BY TOPIC

Two unbiased estimators were sitting in a bar. The first says, "So how do you like married life?" The other replies, "It's pretty good if you don't mind giving up that one degreee of freedom!"

*A big thank you to Bert Bishop for submitting this.

Here is a cute variation of the light bulb joke:

How many statisticians does it take to change a light bulb?

100 - 1 to change the bulb and n-1 to test the replacement!!!

*It looks like a lot of statisticians to handle one light bulb! Thanks to William Tyler for sending me this all the way from Australia.

What do you call a tea party with more than 30 people?

A Z party!!!

*This is a great one from Stacey Ecott. I always thought a Z party was a roomful of slumbering statisticians listening to a keynote address at a convention.

A wise woman once said if all the statisticians in the world would claim all the DEGREES OF FREEDOM then the CEO's of all the corporations would have none. The Chiefs would be forced to go on a merit system tied to valid earnings and upon severence for poor performance would receive a black life preserver instead of a golden parachute.

*Moreover, if the statisticians do take an infinity of degrees of freedom, many tables in textbooks would have only one row and lots of pages would be saved. it sounds like a win-win situation!