"Whether common ones as to callings and earnings," pursued Joe, reflectively, "mightn't be the better of continuing for to keep company with common ones, instead of going out to play with oncommon ones,—which reminds me to hope that there were a flag, perhaps?" This paragraph except th...

From the section on Significance Testing in onlinestatbook: Whenever an effect is significant, all values in the confidence interval will be on the same side of zero (either all positive or all negative). Why? Can't a confidence interval be positioned both sides of the zero? Say, can't its ...

In our country, during an exam hour there is an invigilator whose duty is to stand guard outside the toilet. He makes the invigilation of cheating and records the list of students who use toilet during the exam time. How should we call this teacher, toilet invigilator or toilet keeper?

"The worst thing is" is already a fairly informal utterance, and you will find many examples of The worst thing is, you... and The worst thing is, they... If you're concerned about striking a formal tone, the worst thing you could do is use the phrase the worst thing is, with or without that.

Lets suppose someone is exaggerating the magnitude of a problem. For example: they face an accident on the way home and start to fabricating some stories about the event that never has happened. The audience possibly would perceive these are all made up by the speaker to making a more scenic view...