Well I guess you could be a catistician!
Do you really not know what a statistician is, or were you joking? A statistician does statistics – usually for business analysis (kind of boring) or scientific research (really exciting!!).
Ok getting back to that link — please people, be careful with the location apps. To think that there are sexual predators out there and other kinds of messed up people looking for a victim through those apps is horrifying!
I’ll be honest and say I didn’t know. I’ve heard of people who take statistics but never heard the particular name for their job.
Sounds interesting, what kinds of scientific research?
ALL kinds of scientific research! :) Anybody who does any kind of study needs somebody to look at the numbers and evaluate the results of their study (i.e. what was significant and what wasn’t, and what you can conclude from the data). Unfortunately, as I’m starting to find out, that person is usually one with a Master’s degree or phd. :(
Do you know if you’ll have a chance to take statistics before you graduate high school? You really should if you can – it’s really cool! A lot of people don’t take it because they’re afraid of math, and it is pretty math-y, but it uses that kind of thinking for far different means.
^ DFFOO does statistics. That’s why he’s giving it a good sell. LOL
I go to a private school so I’m not sure if I’ll be able to experience this opportunity in high school, but I like you DFFOO, so I’ll look into it.
@Odil
Holy shit, that’s terrifying. I’m already paranoid about sharing my age on the Internet, so reading that article makes me want to throw my iPad out the window…. Scary O_O
I think I’ll delete my Skype now…
I don’t think that Skype gives location, does it?
They’re talking more about apps like Foursquare.
Give me the number of your administration, Lover, so I can call and yell at them for not teaching statistics! You should definitely take it in college, at least! Do you like math?
People can already look on my Facebook and find out the town I live in and everything about me. I figure it’s only common courtesy to let them know my exact location as well.
Hmmm… I’m not really scared of location apps. If somebody wants to rape me, they can just go out and see me in public and then do it.
But I guess I’ll make sure to stay off of Grindr and Skout from now on! :P
People can already look on my Facebook and find out the town I live in and everything about me. I figure it’s only common courtesy to let them know my exact location as well.
ARE YOU CRAZY? You want a rapist to know your exact location???
Wonder what DiB is going to say about this, really interesting…
Hmmm… I’m not really scared of location apps. If somebody wants to rape me, they can just go out and see me in public and then do it.
DFFOO, this is not something you should take lightly. The guy met the other one in public, and then drugged him and raped him in a department store bathroom. He ended up in the hospital, and they still haven’t found the guy who did it!
Hahaha, I was joking. But I guess I feel kind of the same as DFFOO. It doesn’t really worry me that much. It doesn’t seem like it’s much more dangerous than leaving my house or something like that. Just like almost everything you do, it’s going to make things a little more dangerous. But I never use those apps anyway.
^ Right, but it wasn’t exactly a case of somebody stalking somebody else with location apps. In fact, the location app didn’t really have anything to do with it. It’s exactly the same thing as a Craigslist rape or all of the To Catch a Predators. You meet somebody online, arrange a meeting, and rape them. The article is trying to make it sound like it’s the fault of location apps, when in fact it’s a problem we’ve had for pretty much as long as we’ve had the internet.
Sorry I always crap on the articles you post, Odi!
@DFFOO
After summer vacation one of my teachers tells me they got a call from a drunk old man with wise advice, LOL!
I’m bad at math, but I try at it. I stay in during lunch break a lot of the time to work on it so I don’t drown myself in mediocre grades.
But I never use those apps anyway.
Good. I don’t either. But because I think where I am at any given moment is nobody’s damn business. I don’t want a lo-jack strapped to my ass.
I don’t use location apps because I don’t think anybody really cares where I am, and I don’t care whether they know where I am or not, so I don’t feel like putting in the effort to let them know….
But it’s not cause I’m scared of them! As I’ve said before, I ain’t scared of nothin’!!
DFFOO, just make sure you wipe yourself when you’re done taking a crap on the articles I post.
The only thing I’m scared of is becoming even more attractive than I already am!
I heard about the Craigslist guy who was bludgeoning people with a hammer in the Denver area and I thought “that shit never gonna happen to my family”. Next day my mom has a guy she meet on Craigslist come to our house to see the car we had for sale. I had my buggy eyes on him, but nothing went crazy.
@Odil
Haha, post something funny and not freaky like that…. but not cats!
@Rock and Bull
Do you take it as a compliment when someone wants your butt?
Do you take it as a compliment when someone wants your butt?
Ummm… there are two ways to take that, haha. But either way, YES!
Ok I’m leaving now… If anybody wants to know where I am, I’m driving from Atlanta to Florida!
^ Yikes.
Only one guy in the world I’d be okay with…. “Attacking” me…. And that would be Ryan Gosling.
See you later DFFOO. Have a nice day!
You guys are romanticizing “attacking.” Don’t even put that out into the ether, lest it come to you one day to make you think about it differently. If someone stuck a stick up your ass as their form of rape, and ripped your insides up in the process, would you mind if that person were Ryan Gosling?
Seriously people. It isn’t funny.
I don’t think it wouod be OK if anyone “attacked” you. Rape shouldn’t be seen in that kind of positive sexual way.
Rape IS attacking. It’s forcing someone into a sexual act against their will.
Yeah, it’s not funny, sorry.
Sorry I’m being sensitive. I know what you mean, but you have to word that a little differently to separate it from something very unfunny and unsexy.
LoverofLeCinema
Yes, thanks for the recommendation good folks of STL
What’s a statistician?