A simple genetics question
A rocket scientist and winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovation died recently, and has an obituary in the New York Times. The first paragraph of the obituary is about family and cooking.
Can you guess how many X chromosomes the scientist had?
[Yes, of course, writing about her family is fine, especially as family life was clearly very important to her. But leading with beef stroganoff?]
[Update: the NYT has thought better of the stroganoff: See Newsdiffs for the comparison of old and new versions]
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »