The Old Woman's Actuarial Tables
Fairy tale meets statistics: an insurance agent runs the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe through the actuarial tables and recommends a publicly subsidized shoe.
Transcript
"Well, let's check the actuarial tables…" "Sex?" "Female." "Age?" "Old." "Marital status?" "Single." "Children?" "So many I don't know what to do." "Um…" "Have you considered a nice publicly subsidized shoe?"
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-06-06-the-old-woman-s-actuarial-tables/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)