Nope, I’m not dead.
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November 24th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
Someone please forward this anonymously to my son. His mom will love you for it
November 24th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
abso-freaking-lutely true!
November 24th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I think you mean “I’m not dead…or in trouble.” right?
November 24th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
lmfao…
Will address my phone calls with my mother with said model from here on out.
November 24th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Heh…you obviously haven’t met my mom.
Horizontal line across the top of the graph - small dip somewhere in the middle that moves left & right over time so you never know exactly where it is…
I guess Indexed hasn’t figured out 3-D graphs yet, huh?
November 24th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
Oh my gosh — I need to print this out for my freshman in college son.
If I text him and get nothing back I always worrryyyyy!!!!!
November 24th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
Very true
November 24th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
This is hilarious! This has been my usual communication method with my son since he went to college. Funny how many sons (few daughters) do not keep in touch, even minimally with their moms….
November 24th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
The pattern starts early. Son left home at age 10 for a week at computer camp, called 0 times, came home to mom’s lecture - “at least let us know you are not dead”. One year later, son leaves for computer camp again, after 3 days an e-mail arives “I’m not dead yet”. No further communication ensued.
November 25th, 2008 at 12:40 am
After three unanswered calls to the
child(ren)in question, I leave a final
one threatening to call
a) the State Patrol
b) Campus security
That usually gets the phone to ring.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:07 am
Addendum to response by J Haney:
This is, in fact, true. She called the Alabama State Patrol after not hearing from my brother for several days. The State Patrol found him and told him to call his mother.
November 25th, 2008 at 4:54 am
The axis is the wrong way around
FYI: Should be calls vs worries, not the way you have it…
just semantics i guess
November 25th, 2008 at 10:34 am
distance vs. worry is another chart altogether. but it looks much the same.
November 25th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Yes, but if you made it calls vs worries and the graph remained the same, you’d have many calls for almost no worry - in fact, nigh infinite calls for infinitesimal worry. If you wanted to do that, you’d have to make it an exponential graph instead of a parabola. Actually, it doesn’t make sense, the fact that high initial worry warrants almost no calls home… hm.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Hayden: WTF.
PS - You’re not that bright, are you?
November 25th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
The axes are the right way round. The Value on the Y axis is dependent on the value on the X axis. In this case, as the number of calls home increases from zero, parental worry declines. However, when the calls home become too frequent, parental worry increases again.
November 25th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
Awesome, I like that one! And it fits my calling pattern with Mom.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:36 am
My poor dad us subject to the same worries. I called him once a week for a year and he was fine. When I recently started calling him 4 or 5 days a week I could hear his blood pressure rising through the phone.
November 26th, 2008 at 12:55 am
I think he was looking at it from the mum making the calls:
http://img361.imageshack.us/my.php?image=mumcallsvp4.png
hth
November 26th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
It doesn’t really matter how the axes are arranges. Here, one could imagine that neither variable is strictly exogenous. Calls home has an effect on how much mom worries, but certainly how much one’s mom worries affects how much one calls her, too?
November 26th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
ta James. agreed AxisArg
there is a bidirectional correlation, and axis just depends if you or your mum is the one that always does the calling.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
On the left side of the axes, though… the more mom worries, the fewer calls home? How does that make sense? At first, she approaches infinite worry, and also approaches zero calls home. I thought the joke was supposed to be, the more mom worries, the more she calls you. I thought the joke was funny, I’m just questioning the validity of the graph.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
An exponential function would have been better suited to this one, I think.
November 28th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
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January 1st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
My mother once called the police after being unable to find my sister. They arrived, asked us to double check everywhere we’d looked, and I found said sister under the blankets in her room. She insisted she hadn’t heard us calling (even though my mother shouted after her in the doorway of the room).
Police were not amused.
February 17th, 2009 at 4:36 am
I don’t understand how people cannot call their parents! I am a senior in college and I call my mother 2-3 times a day!