Fun­ny Fri­day - Fire­fight­ing

One day there was a fire in a wastebasket in the Dean's office and in

rushed a physicist, a chemist, and a statistician. The physicist

immediately starts to work on how much energy would have to be

removed from the fire to stop the combustion. The chemist works on

which reagent would have to be added to the fire to prevent oxidation.

While they are doing this, the statistician is setting fires to all the other

wastebaskets in the office. "What are you doing?" they demanded. "Well

to solve the problem, obviously you need a large sample size" the

statistician replies.