Sock drawer Memes

When someone casually says "probably," statisticians don't mess around. That p-value of 0.98 with a sample size of 500 and tiny standard deviation of 0.021? That's not "probably" – that's "I'd bet my tenure on it." Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a math nerd like someone using statistical certainty to warn you away from their sock drawer. Whatever's in there must be worse than that time the department tried to combine the faculty holiday party with peer review.