Fowl cocks

I spotted a young oaf on the bus the other day wearing a T-shirt with this slogan. At first it occurred to me that unless he worked on a battery farm, it was exceedingly unlikely that the person stood on his left would be a chicken owner.

Then I considered how on earth he could make the supposition that this random person might be in possession of a smaller than average bird ? Surely any serious breeder of poultry would have more than one animal and, assuming a gaussian distribution within that population, there would obviously be bound to be certain individuals that were smaller than their brethren.

I decided to approach the buffoon in question and remonstrate that his slogan should read "If the person next to me is a chicken breeder, it is possible that at least one of his cocks will be statistically smaller than the average of that population".

Unfortunately he had already left the bus.

LargetrouserS: Sometimes size is important