Cassowaries Rant

You gotta love mathematicians

Unlike other similar fields (and I could point one Ken Greenwood to Psychology here… repeat after me: I am a person, not a textbook), Mathematicians don’t take issue to giving things precise terms using English terminology. Sure, there’s random things like sine and stuff, but that’s all historical, held over from the day when everything was written in Latin anyway.

You just have to love the name of the χ² goodness of fit test. (Technically I probably should’ve used MathML for that. I hope you can forgive my thinking it isn’t worth learning a new language after midnight so that I can write χ².)