Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

As some of you know, the Quality in the Spotlight conference has one dinner that is infamous for its limerick contest. Finlay MacKenzie of the UK presides as the Master of Ceremonies, and all diners are invited to participate in constructing a limerick based on the events of the first day of the conference. Yes, that's right - try to turn statistics into lyrical poetry. A very difficult feat indeed.

And who was 2016's winner, you may ask?

----- The following limerick is the winner of 2016 edition of the Antwerp meeting:

When statisticians are starting a fight

It doesn’t take much to ignite

Is ATE you?

or is it all MU?

Are you really so certain you’re right?

The winner was none other than Jochem Goldschmidt, the son of conference organizer Henk Goldschmidt. Now some might argue that nepotism may have played a role in selecting the winner of this contest. But I will recuse myself from that debate. As they say, sons in glass houses...