Different groups of people were asked to verify a hypothesis: " ALL ODD NUMBERS ARE PRIME NUMBERS ". The mathematician... "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is not prime ... NOT all odd numbers are prime." The physicist... "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is an error within the tolerance, 11 is prime ... ALL odd numbers are prime." Then the engineer... "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is prime, 11 is prime. OK, that's close enough, ALL odd numbers are prime." The computer scientist... "1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime, 7 is prime,.............." The sociologist: "2 is prime, 4 is prime, 6 is prime, 8 is prime, so all odd numbers are prime." The lawyer: "1 is prime and that sets the precedent." The economist: "Assume all odd numbers are prime; then it immediately follows." The priest: "1 is prime, 3 is prime, but 3 are 1, so adding two gives 3, which are 1, so there is only one odd number and it's prime." The Opposition: "Would the right honourable gentleman please explain how it comes to be that some odd numbers are not prime?" The Government: "Of course there are some non-prime odd numbers, but the issue here is not how many non-prime odd numbers there are but how efficient the prime numbers are" The back-benchers: "Shame! Shame!" The Linguist: "What's a prime?" The American (*any* American): "What's a number?" OR "Grunt Grunt Grunt"