fizzy

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Statistical analysis fail, TUAW...

The SquareTrade report says that in the first 4 months of ownership, 4.7% of iPhone 4 owners reported an accident, versus 2.8% for the 3GS. This is a 68% increase in accidents.

The 82% vs. 76% cracked screen number is the percentage of cracked screens, relative to other accident types. If you multiply that by the 4.7% and 2.8%, you get the conclusion that 3.9% of iPhone 4 users report a broken screen in the first 4 months, versus 2.1% of 3GS users. That works out to an 82% increase in the percentage of cracked screens.

You probably got confused because of the coincidence that 82% showed up twice in that report.

Even worse, your claim that the higher number of phones means more accidents is meaningless in this case, but other folks have already pointed this out before me.

Synecdoche. It's actually a 25 dollar word if you pronounce it correctly.

So you spell waste wrong, and then in defense you misspell merry?

Yes, the iphone is making you dumber.

As far as I know, Robert Rodriguez only made two cooking videos: Breakfast Tacos (on the Sin City DVD) and Puerco Pibil (on the Once Upon a Time in Mexico DVD). He calls them "10 Minute Cooking School", a reference to his "10 Minute Film School".

I don't think kissing in a lab while wearing electrodes could possibly be compared to kissing under normal circumstances.

crossing my fingers...

Trader Joe's was selling this last year (the grater was identical) but I haven't seen it at my local store at all this year.

There's one of these in my town that I have yet to try called Fresh Prep Kitchens. They just started offering cooking classes which seems pretty cool.