I’m currently #11. This is all crazy, but I’m just gonna go with it because 2020.
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I am a 12
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I just watched the Jonathan Swan interview and now I love him. And I’m a 9.
Watching them talk about death rates I swear I was having flashbacks to a meeting years ago when I was trying to explain why we look at year-over-year numbers and don’t just look at a month compared to the previous month. My boss who I was trying to convey that to just did not get it. “But March sales are better than February’s. Sales are up!” Yeah, in a way, but March sales are always higher than February’s. If we just had the lowest March sales in a decade I wouldn’t break out the champagne just yet, you know?
Side note: My story has a happy ending because I was invited to give a presentation about practical uses of statistics at an industry conference. And I used all the stuff my boss said in my presentation as examples of how not to do things. For anonymity’s sake I didn’t identify that the quotes were from my boss. I found an image of a pigeon wearing a top hat, put it into my slides, and had the pigeon say the dumb stuff.
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Please may we see this top hat wearing pigeon.
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I don’t even remember where I found the picture or why I decided a pigeon was the best choice. It just felt right. 
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I’d assumed monocle too?
In related news… https://www.insider.com/pigeons-las-vegas-cowboy-hats-viral-video-2019-12
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That might actually be it!
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That was the top hit I got too.
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Something something seasonality something regression something…
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I just assume schools are August’s event, at least for the U.S. Possibly September too if we don’t get a hurricane. I have Sharknado down for October though.
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Surely that’s Cedric Diggory Robert Pattinson? Not Peter Sarsgaard? ETA: Oh, I see, they’re not picturing the person quoted, they’re picturing the person who… owns the movie?
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I Lol’d
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It seemed appropriate for this forum 
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