I think there’s been far more english-related shirts than real math/science shirts. This one leans closer to pop culture than math/science since it relies on a reference to the Big Bang Theory. (And especially since the first letter appears not to be math-related at all, as far as I know. It’s not beta.)
Not everyone enjoys literature that’s ridiculously verbose (e.g. *Dickens - apparently paid by the word in practically every novel), or completely ambiguous (e.g. Bronte - A story written from memory by an ostentatious narrator who listened to a biased caretaker share a story from memory of past events).
*And apparently, Woot also dislikes Charles Dickens, author of A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations. It’s just censored.
As for Tolkien, I have to say the movies were better than the books - a rare exception since most novels are far better than their movie counterparts.
The β symbol is Greek letter beta, the second of the Greek alphabet. It is used as a variable in math and physics, usually referring to the beta decay (google it).
As a BBT fan and physics major, I COMPLETELY LOVE this shirt!
As a quantitative clinical psychologist, I find this shirt highly offensive: misappropriation of the regression equation significantly chills my heart (p <.001).
It’s the Greek letter beta, which stands for the standardized regression coefficient, among other things, which would allow you to compare the influence of different variables on a given outcome - for example, to see whether gender, height, or ice cream consumption has a bigger influence on the number of woot.shirts one buys in a given month.
[I don’t understand the pop culture reference *at all*. Someone help out the clueless statistician?]
For the creator (and Woot!): LOVE THIS SHIRT. Thanks for the nice alternative to the $25 “official” Bazinga! shirt.
And for the haters: Go crawl back under the rock you came out from. I’ve had to live with the artsy shirts for just as long as you’ve had to live with the pop culture/math shirts…we all get our day in the Woot! sun. Get over it. (And for the record, I’ve seen just as many lit shirts on here as I have math ones. I own two Poe shirts myself. You can’t have everything your way.)
I’m confused, how can you tell that it’s going to be printed on the old AA blanks? I haven’t bought anything since the change occurred, but I’m mighty tempted with this shirt.
I usually watch Community purely because when NBC says they’ll post the episode online the next day, what they really mean is in 24 hours. CBS on the other hand actually posts them at 12AM the next day. My only reason for watching Community over TBBT when it airs.
