Make the darn question!

There's a very interesting article in The Economist on the way animals make decisions, particularly in the case of bees searching for a place to create a new hive. In short: whenever there's a proposal, lots of bees go there and CHECK the reality of it. The article concludes with a warning to the way our representatives make decisions without knowing or understanding what they sign, a reality I've already criticised. And now there's this beautiful article in WIRED explaining the statistics that eventually created the mess we are going through.

Moral of the story: Don't fear to ask. If you don't get it the first time, ask again. If you still don't get it, ask somebody else to explain it. If no one can do so... beware. We live in a society of pretended knowledge that punishes those who candidly expose their ignorance... and that's the first step to living like sheep.

My advice to students (and everybody else, for that matter) "it is OK if you don't know, what's wrong is not to ask..." 

But be sure to do so before the exams!!