Innovation Aboard the Senior Bus Trip to Eilat

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The discussion highlights a humorous observation about the distribution of ingenuity among seniors on a bus trip to Eilat, noting a parabolic increase in creativity from the front to the middle of the bus, where more engaged individuals typically sit. The peak of ingenuity is found near the teacher chaperons and programming majors, after which there is a sharp decline towards the back of the bus. This decline suggests that the credibility of ideas diminishes significantly as one moves further back, leading to a lack of firsthand knowledge about the dynamics occurring there. The conversation also touches on the age of participants, hinting at the varying levels of engagement based on proximity to the driver. Overall, the thread humorously examines how the seating arrangement influences the creative output of seniors during their trip.
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I have noticed, that a graph of ingenuity as a function of the distance from the front of a bus full of seniors on their 3-day field trip to Eilat, behaves in the following pattern: The graph Starts out at relatively low (the driver is never too bright) and climbs in a parabolic fashion to reach a certain maximum (usually where teacher chaperons and programming majors sit), after which there is an inflection point followed by a sudden, severe, almost exponential drop of the graph which now strives for zero. It is noteworthy that as the graph progresses it's credibility drops, so much as that only assumptions based on observations from afar, can be made as to what really occurs at the back of the bus, since no-one has ever ventured that far before getting sent back.
 
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