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submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 40 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Can we teach people that averages are almost never what you care about and instead we should always report on and look at full distributions, but through memes?

Maybe I need Squidward memes

[–] grue 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Are you a zork fan?

[–] tdawg 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Think part of the issue is the casual use of the word "average" really means "what I normally experience on a given day". So in casual conversation it is talking about something akin to the middle of a distribution curve. It gets lost in translation due to the same word being used in two different ways

[–] AtmaJnana 1 points 11 months ago

I think average just means "normative" to most people.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm following NCD so that I don't need to read any other news. It's a huge time save

[–] CluckN 23 points 11 months ago

It gets bad when they predict the news

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Soon you’ll arrive at the next stage, reading other news so you can make better NCD memes

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's terminal right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

no, the end phase is causing the news so you can make better NCD memes

[–] Aremel 23 points 11 months ago

This reads like "task failed successfully"

[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Thanks. Luckily I just eat 3 spiders a day