Pnooma

What is Pnooma?


1.

Abbreviation:

Pulling Numbers Out Of My Ass

(see also: pudouma)

To support one's arguments with arbitrary numbers that may or may not seem plausible.

Professionals (i.e. people who get paid for making PNOOMA-statements) prefer to use terms akin to "Qualified Estimate" or "Economic Calculus/Forecast" instead.

"This is completely PNOOMA, but about five million people in China miss both their front teeth."

A:"<statement involving statistics>"

B:"I don't believe this. It seems like PNOOMA to me."

See pudouma, relevant, irrelevant, statistics


58

Random Words:

1. A word pertaining to a beaver with only one eye. Like the man Robbie Weaver, his eye was taking out by blindly thrown Meat Cleaver. Th..
1. Noun: Epic sauce is the very essence of epicness. It epitomizes the highest degree of achievement most people can expect to achieve. A s..
1. a girl with a bootie that makes all the boys holla back! Sheryl sure is a kayci. See j-lo, bootylicious, player, black girl, lovely la..