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In order to grade the effectiveness of mousetraps, it is necessary to have a range of mice, from the easily caught cheese obsessive, through the nonplussed opportunist to the cautios, paranoid type.
A good mosetrap will catch even the paranoid mouse.
In order to evaluate a better mousetrap, one
must first produce a better mouse in order to verify the trap's effectiveness.
One might even go so far as defining a better mousetrap as one which catches exclusively better mice, causing a decline in the quality of the mouse population, so making them easier to catch by conventional means.
British researchers say the chicken must have come first.
http://www.metro.co...gg-scientists-prove
There go those British researchers again. [sqeaketh the wheel, Mar 15 2011]
A Better Mouse Trap
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How many better mice does it take to make a better mouse
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I'm not quite sure what the idea is. |
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I think Twizz wants to distribute Chinese finger traps to the mouse population in order to weed out the clever ones. |
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"Four legs good, two legs better ....." |
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And what about the paranoid cheese-obsessive? The flaw,
here, is the assumption that mouse-quality is scalar. |
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And a smarter chicken, which could actually answer the question, "Why did you cross that road?" |
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And a smarter egg, which could ...But no, there are some
things Man was not meant to know. |
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//And a smarter egg, which could ..// |
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From the anno: ‘It had long been suspected that the egg came first but now we have the scientific proof that shows that in fact the chicken came first,’ said Dr Colin Freeman, from Sheffield University. |
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As if there could be a dumber chicken ... |
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A smart enough chicken might well ask why we built the road there in the first place, I mean, where was the consultation with the chicken population? |
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Eek! Mouse eugenics! Nazis! Must be nazis! |
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Some questions: How many mice does it take to
change a mousetrap. |
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How much better is a better mousetrap if a better
mousetrap catches better mice? |
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That's better. What's the catch? |
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Why did ze count always keep 'eez mouse shut?
Ozerwize when he opens 'eez trep, ee ken be
'atchet before ee cheeken. So what eez ze moral?
(Int: Zeez explain ze dumb count) |
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Next presidential campaigns: Yes Chicken. Mouse
weekend. |
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// Smart chickens would obviously use gps // |
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Yes, but Zeno's paradox might trip him up. |
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No no... dead reckoning and navigation by stars, of
course. |
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Our mice move the mousetrap. [Grayure] was not amused. |
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The downside to this idea is that it would essentially force
the development of a better mousetrap, which is
something we do not currently have a need for. |
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The fact that we do not currently have a need for a better
mousetrap is the problem this idea solves. |
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In order for the economy to keep growing (and it must
keep growing, for the same reason that the Red Queen
must keep running [1]), we must somehow sustain
demand.
But if everybody's content with the mousetraps they
already own, they won't spend money on NEW! IMPROVED!!
ones. The mousetrap manufacturers will lay off workers,
the economy will tank, the government will have to step
in, and before you know it CREEPING SOCIALISM! [2] |
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So we urgently need an urgent need for better
mousetraps. |
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[1] The snark was a boojum, you see. |
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[2] Come The Revolution, the inventors of better
mousetraps will be first up against the wall. |
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I stand corrected. It's much better than standing up against
the wall. |
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Assuming mice can be placed on a bell curve, a trap could be rated
based on the IQ cutoff of the mice caught (using the same rules as for
humans: 100 mean, 15 standard deviation). Then we could have fancy
marketing terms, like "Standard" grade (100), "George Washington"
(140), "Michael Faraday" (170) or the very expensive "Isaac Newton"
(190). |
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A bitter-chocolate mousse. |
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