The Vanderpools are here!

In case you hadn't noticed, we haven't been posting too much in the past couple of weeks. Most of you probably assume that we've been slacking off in our posting duties because we've been rescuing orphans from burning buildings or ridding the atmosphere of excess carbon dioxide or giving Hank Paulson encouraging backrubs, and while all of those are true, they've never slowed us down before. No, we've been a bit lax in putting up new posts because Paris is awash with Vanderpools!

Dariel finally arrived last Saturday, 20 September, and we've been helping them in their apartment / bank account / cell phone searches since they arrived. Mama and Papa Pool touched down this Friday, and Damien and Vanessa joined us on Sunday morning. In the course of just over one week, the number of Vanderpools in Paris quadrupled, and we didn't even need to add water.

Irrespective of any excuses we might give, I'm aware that the dearth of new posts has been having a profound effect on you, our adoring readers. Case in point: the lack of posts prompted Mr. Michael Harris to send the following e-mail, which made me simultaneously laugh out loud and shiver at the memories of business school that it produced; we promise that we will try to post more often and include pictures of all of the Vanderfun we'll be having in the coming weeks.

Mr. Vanderpool,

Since you (and Pegs) no longer post to alexanderpool.blogspot.com on a regular basis, I’ve had to find alternative activities to keep me awake during extremely boring conference calls. Today I decided to pass the time by analyzing your blog activities. The results of the analysis, while not unexpected, aren’t pretty.

Summary of analysis

The Null Hypothesis : Blogging activity before Sofia, phase “No Baby”, equals blog activity after Sofia arrived, listed as “Oh Baby”

The Alternative Hypothesis: Blogging activity during phase No Baby is NOT equal to activity in phase Oh Baby

Mean analysis:

On average there were 35 posts per month pre-Sofia and 11 per month post-Sofia.

Taking standard deviation into account there is a 0.02% chance that this change represents standard process variation.

Conclusion:

We reject the null and accept the alternative hypothesis.

Sofia has had an impact on your blogging.