Re: education

Salvador Mirzo <smirzo@example.com> wrote:

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.netREMOVE.invalid> writes:
 
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      And this, in turn reminds me of the decades-old "two mathematicians
      and a waitress" joke; see, e. g. (URI split for readability):
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http://web.archive.org/web/20190622112330/
http://www.math.ttu.edu/~pearce/jokes1/joke-086.html

 
Lol.  I don't get the joke.  What's up with the joke?  I'm slow.  The
waitress has a hard-science college degree but can't get a job in her
field?  That's not a joke.  I don't get the joke.  Please explain? :)

The joke is that the second mathematician, who should know better, gave
the waitress the wrong answer to repeat.

The waitress pretends to be dumb when he gives her what will be the
wrong answer to his question.

Then, when he asks the question, she repeats his incorrect answer
flawlessly, and adds in the correction he should have known himself.

I.e., the joke is that the mathematicians were not quite as "smart" as
they thouoght they were.