Statistical Genetics Humor Page

The information collected here is dedicated to proving the following theorem:

Theorem:

All statistical geneticists are not humorless nerds!

Unfortunately, the above theorem has been disproved - see here for the fatal counter-example! So we now have a revised theorem:

Revised theorem: Not all statistical geneticists are humorless nerds!"

Proof by exhaustion:

• Some Advice to Young Mathematical Biologists by Kenneth Lange
• Identify Who Said or Wrote? (Quotes collected by Kenneth Lange)
• Genetics jokes and cartoons
• Quotations
• Additional quotations (collected by Ian MacKay)
• The genetics of humor (or lack thereof): Twin Res 2000 Mar;3(1):17-22
• Steve Horvath's classification of data analysts

Published humor by Dan Weeks

• Weeks DE, O'Connell JR, Schmidtova Z. Nomenclature and linguistic diversity. Nature. 1998 Jan 8;391(6663):118. Original submission
• Weeks DE. Newton Morton's influence on genetics: the Morton number. Adv Genet. 2001;42:7-10. PowerPoint slides

Unpublishable humor by Dan Weeks

• Limerick by Ray A and Weeks DE

Important Links

• The E-Z-Lod program

Randomly-selected Links

• The Ig-Nobel Prize home page
• Ask Dr. Science ... He knows more than you do!
• The Annals of Improbable Research
• Science Jokes
• Hiawatha designs an experiment: Original article from JSTOR
  
• Copyright your own genome
• How do you cross an armadillo with a porcupine and other problems that arise from naming proteins.
• To a well-connected mouse (Poem by John Updike)
  
• Pennings, T.J. 2003. Do dogs know calculus? College Mathematics Journal 34(May):178-182. pdf
• The Mathematics Genealogy Project

Please send all contributions, corrections, complaints, and counter-examples to Daniel E. Weeks

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