This psychology student decides to run an experiment to test the base rate of human error.
to do this, she plans to ring a set of chimes - 'ting!' - and ask the volunteer to count
how many times she has done so. so this is what she does, and is getting some good data
from it, when on the last day, this irish bloke walks in. "i'll just explain again," she
says, "i'll ring the chimes - " 'ting!' " - and you just tell me how many times i've
rung them." the irish man mutters something in agreement. so she knocks the chimes -
'ting!' and the irish man says, "one." then she rings them twice, and the irish man
says, "that would be, a river dwellin' mammal." there is a pause, as the student writes down his response,
and then: "What the hell are you talking about? What's that got to do with anything?!" the
man leans back in his chair, pulls out a previously unseen bottle of Powers, and says:
"you see - with me it's either one ting or an otter!"
