Null Intersection Hypothesis?

[patrickwonders]

Here's the situation. You're in an all-day meeting at work. It comes time to order the pizza for lunch. A quick survey of the 20 people present reveals that four of you are vegetarian. Obviously, since 20% of the people are vegetarian, 20% of the pizzas should be meat-free.

Of course, this fails to take into account the fact that some non-

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[gwangi]

You could make the veggie-pizza-eating carnivores only eat slices shaped like the intersection! Then nobody'd bother!

(....although technically a Venn diagram can have sets shaped like anything at all, not just circles. You could have two squiggly blobs. Or if the pizzas came from one of those inferior places that serves square pies, you could have overlapping squares. Then the intersection would be depressingly easy.)

[patrickwonders]

Other analogies that I couldn't make work:

• For each according to his ability, to each according to his whim.
• Pauli exclusion
• Wave-Particle Duality (Sausage-Cheese)
• Heisenberg Uncertainty
• Bistromathics

[patrickwonders]

One other that I like is All Pizza Eaters Are Socrates.

[tfofurn]

And then there are the people who see a specialty pizza that sounds good, but you know from experience is not very good, and order it in spite of your warning. Then when they discover that it isn't very good, they are surprised that you don't want to eat it for them.