Plausible Statistics
Improbable information from unknown sources
Number of snails eaten in one sitting in May, 1928 by a professor at École
Polytechnique-- 62
Number of professors
eaten in one sitting in April, 1968 by snails at École Polytechnique
-- 1
Ratio of average height of male psychology professors chosen for tenure
compared to average height of those denied tenure during the academic year
1996-7 -- 7:6
Corresponding ratio for women -- 6:7
Number of research reports on this topic that have been published in psychology research journals -- 41
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