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The optimist says the glass is half full.

The pessimist says the glass is half empty.

The nerd says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

The mathematician says that the statement is meaningless because the glass is not a perfect cylinder, and the phrase "half full" could mean either that the beer fills exactly half the height of the glass, or that it fills exactly half the volume of the glass; which are different quantities.

The physicist says the the container is full, but the bottom half is full of beer and the top half is only full of air.

The chemist says that the bottom half is full of beer, and the top half is full of a mixture of air and beer vapour, but that no useful conclusions can be drawn because it is not stated whether the system is at equilibrium.

The biologist says that although only the bottom half is full of a nutrient fluid that could support life; the top half is neverthless of interest because it contains airborne bacteria which might fall into the nutrient and so contribute to its ecosystem.