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This mathematical blog post says:

Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.

I searched sour bunch on m-w and Cambridge, didn't find a match.

Does sour bunch mean unusual here?

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This mathematical blog post says:

Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.

I searched sour bunch on m-w and Cambridge, didn't find a match.

Does sour bunch mean unusual here?

meaning expressions

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This mathematical blog post says:

Statisticians can be a sour bunch. Instead of considering their winnings, they only measure how much they have lost. In fact, they consider their wins as negative losses. But what's interesting is how they measure their losses.

I searched sour bunch on m-w and Cambridge, didn't find a match.

Does sour bunch mean unusual here?

meaning expressions

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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.

And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group of things, joined together in some way.”

Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.

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  I strongly disagree with "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered". It's more "grumpy", "rude" and "angry".
  
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  @RonJohn - Thesaurus.com lists "bad-tempered" as a synonym for "grumpy", and "ill-tempered" as a synonym for "angry", so I'm not convinced there's a ton of difference between all those words.
  
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A bunch of people here means:

a group of people

bunch

Sour in this sense means:

unfriendly or easily annoyed

sour

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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.

And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group of things, joined together in some way.”

Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

James KJames K

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  I strongly disagree with "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered". It's more "grumpy", "rude" and "angry".
  
  – RonJohn
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @RonJohn - Thesaurus.com lists "bad-tempered" as a synonym for "grumpy", and "ill-tempered" as a synonym for "angry", so I'm not convinced there's a ton of difference between all those words.
  
  – J.R.♦
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

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"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.

And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group of things, joined together in some way.”

Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

James KJames K

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  I strongly disagree with "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered". It's more "grumpy", "rude" and "angry".
  
  – RonJohn
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  


• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  @RonJohn - Thesaurus.com lists "bad-tempered" as a synonym for "grumpy", and "ill-tempered" as a synonym for "angry", so I'm not convinced there's a ton of difference between all those words.
  
  – J.R.♦
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

"Sour", when applied to people, means their personality is "mean spirited" or "bad-tempered"; they are focussed on the negative.

And “bunch”, as in a bunch of grapes, just means “a group of things, joined together in some way.”

Here it is saying that statisticians consider "winnings" as "negative losses", and jokingly suggests that this shows that statisticians are a mean spirited group of people. It is just a joke, don't read too much into it.

share|improve this answer

edited 2 days ago

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

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edited 2 days ago

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

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answered Aug 15 at 21:51

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6

A bunch of people here means:

a group of people

bunch

Sour in this sense means:

unfriendly or easily annoyed

sour

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

Michael HarveyMichael Harvey

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  Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
  
  – J.R.♦
  Aug 16 at 1:23
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

6

A bunch of people here means:

a group of people

bunch

Sour in this sense means:

unfriendly or easily annoyed

sour

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

Michael HarveyMichael Harvey

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• 
  
  
  

  
  1
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Exactly; "sour bunch" could be rephrased as "grumpy group".
  
  – J.R.♦
  Aug 16 at 1:23
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

A bunch of people here means:

a group of people

bunch

Sour in this sense means:

unfriendly or easily annoyed

sour

share|improve this answer

answered Aug 15 at 21:51

Michael HarveyMichael Harvey

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answered Aug 15 at 21:51

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answered Aug 15 at 21:51

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