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:“Look: on average, grey squirrels have more nuts than red squirrels. This cannot be denied. Is it not so?” | :“Look: on average, grey squirrels have more nuts than red squirrels. This cannot be denied. Is it not so?” | ||
:“It is so,” said the Statistician. “The data are very clear about this.” | :“It is so,” said the Statistician. “The data are very clear about this.” | ||
: | :“''Exactly''. This, as we have said, is unjust. Social structures are illegitimately weighted to favour those great big fat, greasy grey squirrels.” | ||
:“Hey!” said a passing grey squirrel. “Enough of the fat-shaming.” | :“Hey!” said a passing grey squirrel. “Enough of the fat-shaming. And the trash-talking about grease, for that matter.” | ||
:“Therefore,” continued the | :“Therefore,” continued the Red Leader, “as we red squirrels are systematically repressed, it follows as a matter of inexorable logic, that ''this'' red squirrel, Errol, has ''fewer'' than his rightful allocation of nuts..” | ||
:“I do?” said Errol. | |||
:“ ... and ''this'' grey squirrel, Frank, has too many.” | |||
:“What?” said Frank, crinkled his brow, but got on with munching. | :“What?” said Frank, crinkled his brow, but got on with munching. | ||
:“Well, I suppose so,” said Errol. | :“Well, I suppose so,” said Errol. | ||
:“Don’t let the side down!” hissed the Red Leader. | :“Don’t let the side down!” hissed the Red Leader. | ||
:“Therefore, great Statistitican, we propose that henceforth wel systematically deprive Errol, and grey squirrels like him, of nuts, and give them to Frank, and similar red squirrels, to correct the imbalance.” | :“Therefore, great Statistitican, we propose that henceforth wel systematically deprive Errol, and grey squirrels like him, of nuts, and give them to Frank, and similar red squirrels, to correct the imbalance.” |