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Rei Alta: I Outline the Hypotheses

June 12, 2023 by PBQ Leave a Comment

I got this 

This is 101 

I simply need to determine what a human woman should feel in this situation based on whether or not I can reject the null: 

 

H0 (null) = 

He’s a small person on a power trip
Who never cared
He wasn’t actually sick from bad Indian food 
Each time I felt we needed to talk 

 

H1 =  

He’s not small but broken 
It was shame that caused him to disappear without warning; 
I memorialized every scene of his trauma 
While he forgot my middle name 

 

H2 =  

He’s an emotionless sociopath in a decade-long grift
Laughing about me with his friends 
Each month he adds some new mark to his collection 
One day he’ll be caught and I’ll guest star in a true crime documentary 

 Yes, all very plausible 

Now all that’s left to detect an effect is to dampen the noise 

Filed Under: Issue 104, Poetry, Poetry 104 Tagged With: Rei Alta

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