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		hngryhppos on June 10, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: German Tank Problem I want to comment on how pretentious that website title is ("three standard deviations to the left"). I took that to imply the author (or his intended audience) is three standard deviations above average (intelligence?). Anyway, he says he am IB teacher... not surprised, this attitude of intellectual superiority is an IB hallmark.

cema on June 11, 2010 | [–]

Could be the political left, you know.

Devilboy on June 10, 2010 | [–]

Wouldn't that be 3 SDs to the RIGHT instead?

thefool on June 11, 2010 | [–]

Yeah I took it as meaning a website for the brain-dead, which was much wittier than pretentious.

Unless he meant right and said left, which is even funnier.

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