SigBovik rocks my world!

[eve11]

Utter Nerd Humor (in PDF format): http://www.sigbovik.org/2008/sigbovik2008-proceedings.pdf

I direct your attention to the "Applications of Lies" section, page 21 ("Lies and the Afterlife") in which you can find the article:

"Towards a Frequentist's Approach To Pascal's Wager"

OMG, the methodology section killed me.

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[skurtchasor.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I couldn't get past the first article on Chuck Norris.

[eve11]

heh, I didn't even look at that one. A co-worker pointed me to the Frequentist article above solely for the use of "Rapture-recapture" methodology... We surveyed each subject regarding their beliefs in god, humanity, and their own sins. We then tagged the right ear of each subject and euthanized them. After some period of time we performed a re-capture and again surveyed each recaptured subject on their posthumous experiences."

[eve11]

...and now I've looked at it, and ow, my stomach hurts from laughing so hard.

A related objection is that, even if Chuck Norris is physically able to administer a roundhouse kick, non-compliance with the protocol might involve simply misreporting private information, and thus Chuck Norris would not be able to determine whether or not the protocol was followed. But this is false, since Chuck Norris has the ability to read minds [2].