Comments on: Chance of keeping your job if you’re WRONG more than 75% of the time

By: tom

tom — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:25:14 +0000

Except for your aunt.

By: met

met — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 03:59:36 +0000

graph should be a bar graph…..weatherman cant be wrong because its a meteorolgoist that predicts the weather where is priest on this list?

By: 123

123 — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 02:01:00 +0000

I think those should all be 1% wedges and the rest of the graph should be dominated by “clergyman”.

By: Markus

Markus — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:06:53 +0000

Yep.

By: Kirk

Kirk — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 14:54:39 +0000

All coaches at all levels, all sports atheletes, economists, stock brokers, agents, lawyers, talk show hosts, political pundits, pollsters, TV financial show hosts, financial advisers, political consultants, radio consultants, TV consultants, business consultants, CEOs, board of directors, CFOs, company presidents, management… the list goes on and on but doesn’t make an easy joke. Last check forecasts were 80-84% accurate (made by meteorologists not weatherman-weather presenters on TV)…the weatherman thing is an old joke that doesn’t die because it’s easy.

By: Kayla

Kayla — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:42:57 +0000

i mean not enough purple

By: Kayla

Kayla — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:42:15 +0000

i thinks theres to much purple

By: Todd

Todd — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 19:35:10 +0000

You forgot baseball players.

By: joe

joe — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:33:49 +0000

i love how you admit to being wrong. still, good point.

By: RoofingPrincess

RoofingPrincess — Tue, 12 May 2009 18:08:25 +0000

I agree, should be a bar chart – but this made me think of something that happened here at work.
After a particularly long run of spectacularly bad weather forecasts, I commented to my boss that I wanted to be as WRONG as they were, as OFTEN as they were, and get paid LOTS of money like they do.
He grinned and said, “So, you want to be an actuary, like me, huh?”

By: Devylan

Devylan — Fri, 08 May 2009 18:07:57 +0000

my uncle’s an economist. he did not screw anyone.

By: joeschmoe

joeschmoe — Thu, 07 May 2009 01:53:03 +0000

definitely maybe?

By: chloe

chloe — Wed, 06 May 2009 18:08:40 +0000

Who cares?
Well, you six obv..
but it’s still funny, right?
No need to diss it.

By: Paula

Paula — Tue, 05 May 2009 02:42:26 +0000

um…. is it just me or should this be a BAR GRAPH??

By: Dave_is_god

Dave_is_god — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:31:39 +0000

rocket scientists generally are engineers btw. Aerospace engineers.

By: David W

David W — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:11:20 +0000

Graph competence FAIL

By: Somebuddy

Somebuddy — Fri, 01 May 2009 20:43:09 +0000

edalicious has earned the achievement [The Cake Is Not A Lie!].

By: Runolfr

Runolfr — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:45:35 +0000

Where are the psychics in this chart?

By: moerdacq

moerdacq — Fri, 01 May 2009 01:02:46 +0000

heh you must be from michigan too

By: A Meteorologist

A Meteorologist — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:43:31 +0000

Take a large, almost round, rotating sphere 8000 miles in diameter, surround it with a murky, viscous atmosphere of gases mixed with water vapor, tilt its axis so it wobbles back and forth with respect to a source of heat and light, freeze it at both ends and roast it in the middle, cover most of its surface with liquid that constantly feeds vapor into the atmosphere as the sphere tosses billions of gallons up and down to the rhythmic pulling of a captive satellite and the sun. Then try to predict the conditions of that atmosphere over a small area within a 5 mile radius for a period of one to five days in advance!

YOU try to forecast, it ain’t as easy as you think. It’s an imperfect science…GET OVER IT!!

By: NoseMoking

NoseMoking — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:12:52 +0000

yeah, but isn’t there a limit on the number of times the POTUS can be re-elected?

By: madcow3417

madcow3417 — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:29:24 +0000

The last psychic I knew got about 25% accuracy on a coin toss, do they qualify?

By: Adeline

Adeline — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:17:08 +0000

No, they definitely aren’t a rocket science. They’re definitely maybe not a rocket scientist, either.

By: Srsly?

Srsly? — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:46:29 +0000

75% of the time? What are you, crazy?!

It’s 85% of the time.

By: bigger_ox

bigger_ox — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 21:40:33 +0000

Obviously they don’t know the engineers where I work.They make weathermen look flawless.

By: tyler

tyler — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:07:55 +0000

don’t forget baseball players. if they can do their job against their peers 35% of the time, they’re considered extremely skilled EXPERTS.

By: edalicious

edalicious — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:28:12 +0000

I don’t…

By: jzimbert

jzimbert — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:43:03 +0000

Presidents of companies get to keep their jobs fairly often. And the POTUS can keep his job by getting re-elected (once) or not getting impeached.

By: Alcari

Alcari — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:17:59 +0000

sixth’ed

By: zefyr

zefyr — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:46:59 +0000

Investment Bankers need a huge wedge of late!

By: Mikey

Mikey — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:29:40 +0000

You forgot Economists. They make weathermen look good.

By: Nash

Nash — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 12:26:16 +0000

You know what they say about the cake…

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:04:49 +0000

Where are the Congressmen?

By: Azkyroth

Azkyroth — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:49:36 +0000

In order to keep your job as president until the mandatory retirement limit, you have to be wrong either less than 20% of the time or more than 98% of the time.

By: xanfran

xanfran — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 05:52:01 +0000

jojojojojojo great!

By: Brendan

Brendan — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 01:46:03 +0000

no its obviously a cake chart because if it were a pie chart or a pizza chart it would have a crust

By: I LOLed.

I LOLed. — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:42:31 +0000

By: McGrath

McGrath — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 23:04:24 +0000

L2pickgraph type

By: SteelSkin

SteelSkin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:07:46 +0000

Wrong graph type. Very, very wrong.

By: Shin

Shin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:50:36 +0000

Wasn’t it pizza?

By: Nash

Nash — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:47:22 +0000

I think the creator just REALLY likes pie.

By: podgirl

podgirl — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:17:25 +0000

Agreed. We must have the same boss.

By: janet

janet — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:16:42 +0000

indeed.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:15:40 +0000

true!

By: BAW

BAW — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:50:32 +0000

Meteorology’s main reason for existing is to make astrology look respectable.

By: Shin

Shin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:37:14 +0000

Economists don’t screw up the world. Politicians who listen to economists do – they best thing they could do would be keeping their hands off the economy altogether. Anyway, economics are not an exact science, and predicting economic trends is pointless, as such predictions might influence the trends.

By: Terminal

Terminal — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:05:47 +0000

Should have been a bar graph.

By: Deathbal101

Deathbal101 — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:05:14 +0000

True.

By: Pierre

Pierre — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:55:12 +0000

my manager should be up there with weathermen as well.

By: Rodrigo Aguilera

Rodrigo Aguilera — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:48:05 +0000

I think you should add economists to graph. they screw up the world and most of them keep their jobs