By now these would have gone all over the Internet: Drake's law explaining student is more likely than not to remain single-- http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpps/news/dpgo-Peter-Backus-uses-math-to-explain-girlfriend-woes-fc-20100112_5537488
And the response, arguing the reverse-- http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/staff/phd_students/backus/girlfriend/diego.pdf I do hope the public sees this humour as a way of getting a handle on the math, rather than as academics burning through public funds... Chew Lin
