Statistics

I teach statistics and none of my students think what they're doing is useful and I think I finally have a story to prove them wrong.

Once I was at a party and this girl comes up to me and says "Tom, walk me to my car. It's getting late and I don't want to be raped."

I didn't really want to walk her to her car so I used maths and statistics to get out of it. I said "You know, statistically, you're less likely to get raped if you walk to your car alone than if you walk to your car with me..."

- Tom Gannon