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school of hard memes (mander.xyz)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a native analysts. There are grown adults who don't get that - I deal with them on a daily basis.

"memes have educational value" actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spider Georg is an outlier and should not be counted.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Memes teach culture if nothing else.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Internet culture. That's a fair bit different than what most people consider "culture."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

The lines between the two will continue to blur.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

What's a spider georg

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Well played.