“Call it Maybe”

lyric © 2013 Lawrence Mark Lesser; all rights reserved

may be sung to the tune of Carly Rae Jepsen’s 2012 hit “Call Me Maybe”

I went to find people’s heights, I measured each person thrice:

The numbers didn’t match nice and I said, “Oy vey!”

When I was asked for the mean, I knew I had to come clean:

I said it’s something between and I gave a range.

Climb: That’s variation: There is correlation

with your education, knowin’ what’s exact or maybe.

CHORUS: Hey, I don’t know μ and that’s not crazy,

But here’s my window: call it maybe.

I can’t say I’m right; I’m not laaaaazy:

There’s always error, so call it maybe.

Hey, life’s uncertain and that’s not crazy,

But here’s my window: call it maybe.

No way to know μ quite exaaaaactly,

But here’s my window: call it maybe.

I give my best argument so I can feel confident

At ninety-five percent for what I portray.

I need a sense of how far from my sample’s x-bar

My true parameters are: that’s just the way. (Repeat Climb, Repeat Chorus)

Bridge: Before I took a class in stats, I reasoned so bad,

I reasoned so bad, I reasoned so, so bad!

Before I took a class in stats, I reasoned so bad,

And you should know that I reasoned so, so bad!

(Rep.Chorus, no vocals on first ¼; Rep.Bridge, except last 6 words) So call it maybe