Sunday, August 15, 2004

A Small Back Question



Today marks a historic day, and I'm not talking about the US basketball team's loss to Puerto Rico. I am talking about the first time the internet and Google have let me down. I was curious if there were chiropractors who specialized in working with midgets AND/OR if there were any chiropractors who were also midgets. This stems from a conversation I had with a chiropractor yesterday, and the midget context will make sense if you read the post below.

Granted, I didn't spend more than three minutes on this search, but Google couldn't find any webpages at all that had "midget" and "chiropractor" on it.

I was also unable to find out if there is a more PC term for midget. Now I could make like a library scientist and refine my Google searches, but I think I actually did a pretty adequate job with my Google searches.

But instead I'll make like a lab rat scientist and use the null hypothesis. The null hypothesis would be that there are NEITHER midget chiropractors NOR chiropractors who happen to be midgets. And since Google yieled no results when I searced for pages with the key words "midget" AND "chiropractor," the null hypothesis stands.

Wow. Well when I look at it that way, the internet didn't let me down at all. It's all in how you use your tools, not what your tools do for you.



This is a weird post. But it could be argued that I'm a weird guy, so I'll go ahead and publish it.

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