There’s a new (but old meme) making it’s way around the web via Facebook Notes/status, Forums, Blog posts and comments.
See how far it’s burrowed into the web. Or try technorati if you like.
The game is nothing more than printing a quote from a book according to some rules and passing it along.
Here’s a quote from me:
“Suppose we do another version of the calendar analysis we did in the previous chapter with hockey players, only this time looking at birth years, not birth months”
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST
Where did this start?
Why are we all passing it on?
What interesting data is there in all this?
What’s the mostly widely kept at our sides book right now?
What about this meme works where others haven’t?
“In addition to illustrating the role of the prior distribution, this example introduces hierarchical modeling, to which we return in Chapter 5.”
the question I have been pondering is why page 56 when everything else is a straight 5? I notice a variation that makes the change to page 55 so I’m not the only one struck by the disruption in the symmetry.
btw, the meme I saw also specified the fifth paragraph…