Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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There's more people who wake up at the same second than people who fall asleep at the same second. (feddit.de)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

However, that’s not what the title is saying. The title says that more waking times are lumped at the same second in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This, and also just that it's not that deep. It's ShowerThoughts, not ShowerEpiphanies.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The title says "There's more people who wake up at the same second than people who fall asleep at the same second". One could (and most people seem to) interpret this as "the maximum amount of people waking up at any given second is higher than the maximum amount of people falling asleep at any given second", which is a statement I agree with. I interpreted it as "The amount of people waking up at any given time is higher than the amount of people falling asleep at the same time", which is of course false.

It seems we just weren't talking about the same thing. You were talking about the maximum values of both distributions, for which the statement is true, while I only considered the distributions' median and mean values, for which the statement isn't true.

I disagree that the post makes clear OP is referring to the max values, but I guess that's because english is not my first language, and my statistics background likely made me over analyze the statement.