The Final Blog...or Is It?

Even though our blogs postings are no longer going to be assigned after this tenth post, I think I am going to continue to try and post something at least once a week.  I don't plan to take too many more writing course, and I believe that writing something, anything, helps keep one current in their own vernacular and writing persona.  I'm not too big on a journal, I can't ever remember to do it, and I enjoy typing much more than writing.  With this being said, I think that it is important to state that I found these postings to be a joy, and quite helpful with my writing.  I also plan to have a few of my own friends join my blog and hopefully they create their own and start posting their own material.  Maybe I can save them from Facebook!  I also plan to create a new blog to discuss the goings on in the EPL, or the English Premiere League for those who don't watch soccer.  I will post another blog concerning music and both will be followers of this blog, so if anyone is interested, just follow.

60% of the Time It Works Everytime

I has come to my attention that 87% of people believe statistics that are 35% of the time wrong.  I honestly have no idea about the actual percentages on the case, but it's not hard to believe this without questioning it.  The reason I am speaking of this is because of a discussion I had with a friend yesterday.  He was telling me about what people hear whenever they hear a stat.  Most often, people believe them without any question to the validity of the statement.  I began asking myself why, and I came up with two answer, though there are probably millions.  The first thing I thought of was obviously laziness.  If one is given a stat that they don't already know, chances are that they don't care enough to do any actual research on the subject, so they are content with the knowledge bestowed upon them by their conversee.  I mean even if you knew it was wrong, if you didn't care about it, would you care to correct them?  The other explanation I found was the white coat thesis.  People tend to believe any and everything they hear from someone with a white coat, doctor, scientist, etc.  Why try to validate information that is coming from someone that you assume is much brighter than you?

Downhill Jam and Girlfriend Overboard

Christmas break is approaching fast.  I have three exams left to do in the next week and a half and then I am off school for almost a month straight.  This is extremely needed.  I go to school and work literally everyday, so this break from school is going to be awesome.  Work will also be ten times busier too because of the holiday season, which means more income for myself.  Over the break I plan to, if it snows, go sledding and quad-ing.  Where I'm from we play this game called Down Hill Jam.  We go to the biggest hill in town, start from the top, and the last man still on his sled wins.  Most often there is more than one person that makes it to the bottom, in which case we have a battle royale.  This consists of both players trying to remove the other's sled whilst keeping a hold of their own.  We have played this since we were 12 and it's still fun when you're 21.  We also used to play a game on the quads, Overboard, that I don't think will get played much this year.  Let's just say it involves trying to throw your girlfriend of the sled whilst someone pulls you on the quad.  It was fun when we were 12.  I think the repercussions will be a little bit more severe now that we're 21.  Over all though, I still can't wait to get out of school.