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The Sheep Experiment
Friday, January 6
An experiment was conducted recently to get people's responses to getting unsolicted messages containing what would appear to be rubbish to most people. The experiment involved sending out a SMS containing the words 'The sheep will fly some day' to 13 nice people. I wanted to key in random numbers and send messages out to complete strangers but the possibility of seeing my number on the back of toilet doors with pornographic offers scribbled beside it isn't exactly the nicest thought. Anyway, here are their replies.
A: How about cows?
J: Mai kao chai1 .. Care to explain?
S: You go crazy already ah kok? If sheep fly i make sure cow will fly too!
W: one day sheep will have dreams.
N: What rubbish? You act stupid is it?
Y: let e killing begin..
W: The cows will swim one day
C: Mad ah
S: Very good.
C: I thought i just saw one today.
R: (NO REPLY)
G: (NO REPLY)
J: (NO REPLY)
Based on these replies, I have concluded that there is nothing to conclude except that 3 of the people surveyed have a similar affection for cows and 3 people have either been left dumbstruck by the bizarre sentence or have faulty handphones.
In this paragraph I will throw in some redundant formula in an attempt to make the experiment look more meaningful. With a 95% confidence interval we will calculate Upper and Lower Limit (xbar +- zprob (s/sqrt n) and get 22.5327938 to 23.6199862 which is probably wrong since I'm unable to get a value for the standard deviation (s) and its been ages since I did stuff like this anyway.
I hope when I grow old I will find a nice place in the mountains and live there alone for the rest of my life and take care of sheep and play bongo drums every morning and shout 'YARALADLAARRRR!!!!!!!'. Thank you and have a nice day :)
1 Mai Kao Chai is Thai and means 'I don't understand'. It might have been a typo error too and the person might have meant to type Mai Ka Chiao
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