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[rivkat]

I got this result because I'm a lawyer down to the DNA.


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According to the movie Adam's Rib, lawyers should never marry other lawyers; it's called inbreeding, and it produces idiot children. I stand as a proud (?) counterexample. My parents did, however, worry about regression to the mean*, or at least they told me so jokingly, which says rather a lot about my parents and the level of humor in our household.

*Regression towards the mean is a statistical phenomenon: extreme results tend to be balanced out by less extreme results. Two really smart people, for example, may be likely to have a child who's smarter than average, but not as smart as they are.

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lawyers should never marry other lawyers

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

I stand as a proud (?) counterexample.

Didn't you really mean "I stand as a proud counterexample (?)" because, you know, I can just bust your chops about that.

My parents did, however, worry about regression to the mean*, or at least they told me so jokingly, which says rather a lot about my parents and the level of humor in our household.

Yeah, and my folks were afraid that they'd somehow produced a jock that they somehow wouldn't be able to communicate with. But when I started falling on my face while learning to walk, despite having a freakishly large vocabulary, their worst fears were dissipated. Little did they realize that I was a klutz and would require monthly ER trips during summer vacations. Today, I think my folks would have been investigated for child abuse from what I managed to do to myself.

And it never stopped. I tripped over a chair the other day and I think I broke my right pinky toe - again.

Sigh.

I need a well-padded universe.

Sally