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Genetics

Whenever you have a Genetics class, you will invariably encounter probability problems. There seems to be some Mendel-inherited cultural memory of randomly choosing differently colored balls from a bag to illustrate the Product Rule or something.

Today, my very Chinese professor, was explaining the probability of getting blue balls when randomly picking from a blind sack. And people were laughing. And he didn’t know why. So when I made the mistake of lingering after class, he came up and asked me what everyone had been laughing about. What was I to do?! Should I have to be the one to explain to my professor what blue balls are? Did I make the right decision to feign ignorance and get the hell out of there?

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5 Responses to “Genetics”

  1. Neal says:
    April 25, 2010 at 10:32 pm

    Probably not.

  2. Walthers says:
    May 8, 2010 at 10:10 pm

    So what happened??
    The suspense of this has been tearing me up inside for two weeks now.

  3. Tommy says:
    May 9, 2010 at 12:23 am

    I feigned ignorance, blamed text messaging and escaped.

  4. lurker says:
    May 10, 2010 at 9:52 pm

    Two weeks? You need to get out more Walthers.

  5. Dylan says:
    June 6, 2010 at 12:17 pm

    Professor: Why was everyone laughing?
    Tommy: Are you married professor?
    Professor: Yes, for 20 years now.
    Tommy: Well, you’ve had them for awhile then.

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