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Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.
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Does sour bunch mean unusual here?
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This mathematical blog post says:
Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.
I searched sour bunch on m-w and Cambridge, didn't find a match.
Does sour bunch mean unusual here?
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This mathematical blog post says:
Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.
I searched sour bunch on m-w and Cambridge, didn't find a match.
Does sour bunch mean unusual here?
meaning expressions
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This mathematical blog post says:
Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.
I searched sour bunch on m-w and Cambridge, didn't find a match.
Does sour bunch mean unusual here?
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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.
Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.
And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group.”
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A bunch of people here means:
a group of people
bunch
Sour in this sense means:
unfriendly or easily annoyed
sour
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.
Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.
And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group.”
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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.
Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.
And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group.”
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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.
Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.
And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group.”
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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.
Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.
And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group.”
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A bunch of people here means:
a group of people
bunch
Sour in this sense means:
unfriendly or easily annoyed
sour
answered 8 hours ago
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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A bunch of people here means:
a group of people
bunch
Sour in this sense means:
unfriendly or easily annoyed
sour
answered 8 hours ago
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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A bunch of people here means:
a group of people
bunch
Sour in this sense means:
unfriendly or easily annoyed
sour
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A bunch of people here means:
a group of people
bunch
Sour in this sense means:
unfriendly or easily annoyed
sour
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
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