Random Ramblings of a Restless Rover

Poker night was held today instead of tomorrow due to Emma's belated birthday party set up for tomorrow. As by the bell graph of luck goes, I was the first to get kicked out. It was a painful exit though, losing to an Ace pair in the penultimate round and then losing to a straight when I had an Ace and a King pair. Shite.

It was another great round, with insane combos and Rob practically swiping the table clean. Ed then organised a 'visit' to a nearby pub, "Clyde's", which was closing down. It is actually the same one I had my footie scully at, so that plus 5 dollars a jug offer made it very enticing indeed.

Turns out, I didn't go at all. Felt kinda woozy after a couple of glasses of wine. This was because I was invited ot the High Table today, and the wine was better than the previous days. (For those in the dark, High Table is basically the table in the dining hall where the principal and the tutors sit. Students are chosen, apparently in turns at random, to join them at High Table, where we get served top-notch food and get treated quite nicely indeed.)

Anyways, I just remembered about this really interesting statistic that was brought up during a debate between the Juniors and the Seniors. Apparently, Janet Clarke Hall had a severe outbreak of chlamydia during the early 1980's. About 20% of its students contracted chlamydia. This wasn't refuted by the principal, so I would take it as a true stat.

So.. Question is.. What the hell? I really got to watch my step here... :)

I was also doing a bit of elementary maths, and came up with pretty bizzare results. There are about 92 students in JCH at the moment, and for the sake of convenience I would take this value as the average number of students in JCH. So, 20% of students equates to about 18 to 19 students. Because this used to be a women's only college, the amount of women are generally more than men, and thus a ratio of 2 guys for every 3 girls. That would mean that the number of men who contracted chlamydia is in the range of 7 to 9 (In all reality the number could unsurprisingly be significantly lower). That would mean about 10 or more girls contracted chlamydia.

Does this show that men are generally more promiscuous than women? Probably in JCH (then), but it serves no conclusive information for any other inferences to be derived. That's not all though. Let's just say that chlamydia is the most contagious of STDs (If you don't know what it means, you're better off not knowing), with its carriers infecting his or her partner/s 50% of the time. That would mean, at the worst case possible, about 36 students were sexually active during that mini outbreak. That would mean more than one student out of three is getting his or her 'fix'.

Wow.

Anyways, that's just a bit of food for thought for you guys. I really have no opinion on that morsel of information. All I can say is that it's.. interesting.

Oo, on another total bout of randomness, it's almost 1am here in Australia, so Happy Merdeka Malaysia!