The world in 100 people. Be thankful.

 "if you have a bed, a roof over your house, if you have a closet.  Congratulations. you are richer than 75% of all the people in the world. This is not just conjecture, it is reality based on facts, numbers and statistics" - Economics Professor.

There is research that shows us what the world would look like if it was only made up of 100 people.  The result is astonishing. More than that it really makes you thankful for the blessings in your own life.   Take a look at this video.  Before you start, be somewhere quiet. Preferably with someone you can hug. 

What should you take from all this?  Be thankful, the world is bleak. 

Law is a messy dirty thing.

"We tend to think of law as this pristine fair thing, but its not.  You have to remember that law is conceived by  politicians.  It's a messy dirty thing." -PoliSci Constitutional Law Professor

Law is a messy dirty thing. We tend to create walls between what we consider law and what we consider politics. There really is no division, just the ones we create in our own minds.  Law is created by politicians, its their child. It is not black and white, nor pristine and pure, though we aspire it to be.

Whole world is curved

When asked if the test was going to be curved, my professor scoffed, and said "is the test curved pfft, whole world is curved!, statistics is curved!  Even light is curved,  pfft, yes yes the test is curved."

so it seems that the randomness we see as chance is really the bell curve - "normal distribution" and it looks like a bell curve.  One professor said the best way to describe it is ...if you have a wall ..and its filled with a bunch of pegs and you throw tennis balls at it no matter if you hit the sides or the middle ..or try to change it ..the damm balls will always land on the bottom in a pattern ..and that's a bell curve pattern (like the picture on the bottom) - so ...whole world is curved.  so if you play planko ..bet for the middle.

If you're going to learn anything in statistics learn this:

My ISDS statistics professor explained this one over and over but somehow it just didn't make sense until a tutor told me the following:

If you're going to learn anything in statistics learn this:

if  p-value < alpha         --> reject the null
that's the rule 100% of the time

The null is just that (NULL - NOTHING- NO CHANGE!)  H0:  MEAN = 0  <-- the null never changes! if there's a change ..then your answer is H1 = which is only saying that its not there's not enough evidence to be H0 (the null)

alpha is usually .05 (can be less tho)
p-value is a proportion!  (This is all assuming normal distribution)

repeat it over and over people ~_~; it can save you many headaches

• also in any F-test you don't care about the left side of the curve..because it starts at 0! that means if you get a negative answer ..you're doing it wrong!

Why would you optimize shit?

Professor Tip:

"Why do you think we look at the structures and processes before you even THINK about making an MRP (or even bigger) ERP program? (lots of students give long winded reasons - efficiency etc etc) SHIT people! you don't want to Optimize SHIT!!  because optimization means getting rid of human input and if you optimize shit! you still get shit!"

MRP: Materials Requirement Planning (just materials not capacity)
ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning (tells you about capacity too: human resources you might need)

Interview Tips

Professor Interview Tips:

• Get the interview by tailoring your resume with the JOB DESCRIPTION they are looking for. USE those as key words and pepper your resume with them! - this will help you get the interview. Most large companies that receive a lot resumes use filtering software. Using the keywords helps you get ahead of that filtering.
• In the interview: DO NOT give personal information regarding family, religion, sexual orientation, it can only hurt you.  *   When the interviewer asks you "tell me a little bit about yourself" - they're not asking A/S/L ... they want to know how you pertain to the job. Remember that - & remember the job description they provided - hit those points. If it said "need enthusiastic individual" ..all of the sudden you're REALLY enthusiastic. If you're not "experienced" in a subject be experienced with the software needed to do the job (word excel etc) and tell them that. 
• Practice interview questions, you can get them on the internet, don't be lazy look them up.

Ask your questions or stop complaining.

Prof. Quote of the Day: (in thick Indian accent)
"...ohhh don't look at me with that look (hand gestures with arms waving wildly) like you don't know what I'm talking about ~ go on ask your questions ~ otherwise I get your student reviews with the "Oh no he doesn't explain things" Here is your opportunity! Use it! "

About half the class raised their hand - LOL - moral of the story: ASK, or don't complain. and Seize the Day!

Learn Statistics - It can earn you the big bucks

Professor quote of the day:
I don't know why you have to learn calculus! I've used it like 5 times in my career, but this statistics stuff, it can earn you the big bucks, unless you're like Mother Teresa, but if you're like me, a money grubbing little Italian, well, learn the crap out of it but - do it my way, it makes a whole more sense than the way the ISDS nerds do it.

I'm a lawyer!

Professor quote of the day: "Be like me, I'm a lawyer who never tried blow. It's just too damn expensive."