Saturday, January 27, 2007

Medicus-Guber OUTRAGED

So it's come to pass, the mighty M2 blogs have faded into relative obscurity, suffering the indignity of having an occasional visitor popping by, only to find us lacking in updates. Well, what can we do? Too busy in the library mugging away and trying to reach M3 with a decent pass.

Anyway, this erstwhile blogger decided to post this up for all the male chauvinists out there (i.e. anyone with a third leg, yes ladies, all guys are pigs at heart). Leonard came across this in his extensive research through vast horizons of knowledge, and true to good humour, discovered that even in medical genetics literature there can still be room for biased FEMINISTIC reporting. Read on gentlemen, and bemoan the fact that we guys are poorly misunderstood, and definitely mistreated in this ever-growing world of self-righteous females:


A much misunderstood feature, both of biometric data and of polygenic theory, is regression to the mean. Imagine, for the sake of example only, that variation in IQ were entirely genetically determined. Figure 4.12 shows how in our simplified two-locus model, for each class of mothers, the average IQ of their children is half way between the mother's value and the population mean. This is regression to the mean - but its implications are often misinterpreted. Note however a hidden assumption in this simple model: that there is random mating. For each class of mothers, the average IQ of their husbands is assumed to be 100. Thus the average IQ of the children is the mid-parental IQ, as common sense would suggest. IN THE REAL WORLD, HIGHLY INTELLIGIENT WOMEN TEND TO MARRY MEN OF ABOVE AVERAGE INTELLIGIENCE (assortive mating) and we would not expect regression half way to the population mean, even if IQ were a purely genetic character.


I completely resent the fact that this is a recommended text by one of our Profs! To add salt to the wound, it's a SHE! Gentlemen, this must not be taken sitting down. Get your noses out of your books and rise up against feminism!

-brought to you courtesy of a deranged, demented fool.

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Could this be true?

A friend of mine (you know who you are) send me a link to this video. Could this be true? Are they truly ignorant?


Monday, January 15, 2007

<<白色巨塔>>

Ohwell, this new taiwan chinese drama is going to be shown on channel u/8 i forgot which one. Weili finished watching it on youtube liao and im still trying to finish the dvd. if u all want to watch can wait till feb when it is shown on tv. trailer not v nice and detailed but i guess, yan cheng xu is qt shuai. wahaha.




Cheers!
Yang =)

Monday, January 08, 2007

Still Alive and Kickin!

Well, dunno if you guys and gals have seen this on youtube, has been out for about a year already. But it cracked my up the first time I saw it and well if you missed it, here it is. Kill Bill with super mario SFX added in.

Monday, January 01, 2007

Hello 2007!

Aiyoh where did 2006 run off to? Just like that and another year has just zipped by.

Guess everybody was watching the countdown on channel 5. If you missed it, i guess one word sums it up. Blargh. Sure vivo city aint no Times Square, but you know you've got a problem when the audience needs to be egged on by every single MC and by practically every single performer on stage to scream. As future doctors, we should seriously do our part to drum up business for the medical community and help build national spirit.

What do I mean? Well simply next year instead of organising Mediweek or even Medix we should form "Cheering teams" and go down to events such as "Countdown 2007" to fan the flames of National pride and get our fellow Singaporeans, expats and PRC scholars to cheer their hearts and souls out. At the same time, booths selling lozenges at $5 a sweet and Maps with directions to the nearest GP clinics can be provided at a nominal sum of $1 each. Proceeds of course would go to charity and the further development of Medicine in singapore, namely by being shunted into the medical student welfare funds. What better place money than squarely in the hands of the future of medicine in Singapore (aka us)?

Way i see it, everybody is happy. Audience has a fun time, MCees dont get a "dead" audience and the performers on stage actually get to feel appreciated. Not to mention the fact that the whole world can see we full of Spirit. So maybe next year, we can raise enough funds from selling strepsils and lozenges and do something about the name of a particular medical school. Woot! Unfortunately that means raising at least $25 million dollars. Aka 5 million strepsils. But no worries, with the increasing amounts of foreign talent and foreign doctors poring in, I am confident we can reach the 5 million strepsil target. Aiyah, foreign talent get paid alot of $$$ lah, they surely buy more than 1 strepsil. Dont forget the inherent Mr. Kiasu that lives in most of us. Surely can sell more than 1 strepsil per person. Even better, we could push a buy 5 get 1 strepsil free promotion.

So common people, lets cheer our hearts out!

*First bit of utter crap to be spouted. Hi 2007!*
*This was a shameless ad for Strepsils.*