[Graduate student sits down at the computer, ready to perform a 2-way ANOVA but realizes that StatView was sent to the software graveyard years ago. There is InStat but it is incapable of anything beyond a t-test]
Grad Student: shoot darn....what would MacGyver do?
[MacGyver enters]
MacGvyver: I would take a bobby pin, a popsicle stick and a quarter and build a makeshift mini computer capable of calculating 2-way ANOVAs. So the question is, do you have a bobby pin, popsicle stick and a quarter?
Grad Student: All I've got is some bubblegum and tinfoil...
MacGyver: Sorry, bubble gum and tinfoil can only get you a makeshift satellite dish. So you could watch ESPN, but you cannot do stats.
Grad Student: What eccentric scientist can I turn to in my hour of need? A) mild mannered theoretical neuroscientist Hebb? B) Darwin, controversial but hides 256 940 000 gigamegs of computer intelligence under that beard? or C) Eric Kandel, James Bond of neuroscience?
MacGyver: Uh....I think Prism calculates 2-way ANOVAs
Grad Student: Oh....
[clickity clack clack clack click clack]
Grad Student: p=0.345! sigh....
[end scene]
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