2013-01-19
Explanation
This comic subverts the common put-down that a man driving an expensive sports car "must be compensating for a tiny penis." Two men see a flashy red sports car and one makes exactly that remark. His bald friend then constructs a chain of statistical correlations: expensive cars correlate with wealth, wealth correlates with success, success correlates with height, and height correlates with penis size. Therefore, by following this chain of correlations, the rich guy with the awesome car statistically probably has a bigger penis, not a smaller one -- the exact opposite of the "compensating" cliché.
The long-haired man tries to salvage his ego by suggesting "what if he inherited" the money, implying inherited wealth would break the correlation chain. But his friend cheerfully shuts this down by pointing out that penis size is also hereditary, so the wealthy heir'''s father would have had the same statistical advantages, and those would be passed down genetically as well.
The votey panel delivers a final dig: a woman tells the defeated long-haired man, "So that'''s why you drive a compact," implying that his small car reveals the opposite set of correlations about him. The comic'''s humor comes from using pseudo-rigorous statistical reasoning to reach an uncomfortable conclusion that is the exact reverse of a comforting folk belief.