The Dork Knight Rises

The first days of school have been filled love, war, fear, and most of all statistics. Well, maybe not love, war, or fear. We have done an activity over the past few days, one of life and death. On a trip to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus, our plane crashed leaving us stranded on what can only be described as the worst place on Earth: Canada. We now must salvage the remaining supplies and rank them in order of importance to survive.

My group, for better or for worse, was thrust into this situation. Would we survive? Based on an expert opinion, it is possible. We had an absolute value difference of 0 on the lighter and steel wool (items ranked 1 and 2 respectively). We also only had relatively small differences across the board. On average, our absolute value difference was 2.45. I would say that is pretty good for our survival chances.

Independent of my group, my results were not amazing. I once again achieved zero difference on the lighter (because I'm number 1). Past that my difference ranged from 2-5 save for the Crisco shortening with an absolute value difference of 7. The average of my absolute value differences was 3.36, which is okay but not great. Thankfully I am the grizzly hero of Gotham City, and should survive off my grit and instincts. Or maybe not, so it is good that this is only a theoretical situation. I don't like the cold.

Pictured:

Cole Hutzel's face if he were to be in Canada

Jack Howard, survival expert, doing math