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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Median and mode are 0. Mean is at 2.

A great way to teach averages.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My favourite way to teach how averages aren't always the perfect metric is:

Most people have higher than the average number of arms.

[–] zaph 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My favorite is averaging testicles and including both sexes.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The average person has less than one testicle

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that true? The sex ratio I generally see quoted is 101:100 or 102:100 male:female. Unless more than that number of men are missing testicles.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

For various reasons, yes, many are missing one or more testicles

I'd say testicular cancer and castration, voluntary or not, account for many of that number

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right, but is it more than 2 missing testicles per 102 men? Because that's what it would take to make the average less than one

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, the numbers seem to say yes

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[–] postmateDumbass 2 points 1 year ago

"Yeah, mutants"

[–] doppelgangmember 15 points 1 year ago

I know of these operations and have used them

But man, this really does highlight the diffs

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, if you do a curve fit on that data, you'll see that US Presidents have become more criminal over time.
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Where is Joe Biden hiding all those bodies?

[–] BeardedSingleMalt 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to all the right-wingers...Joe Biden has masterminded the murder and coverups of thousands of murder while simultaneously being the most incompetent senile sitting president in history...while Hunter Biden has all the details documented on his laptop...

[–] CADmonkey 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When my wife's old laptop bit the dust, she jokingly said I should blank the hard drive put it on ebay as "hunter bidens laptop" and start the bidding at what we originally paid for the laptop.

I really thought about it but figured it would just cause trouble for us.

[–] gutternonsense 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Should've just gone with "NOT Hunter Bidens Laptop"

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[–] SCB 4 points 1 year ago

Just post it as "laptop from hell" and refuse to elaborate. Some Qnut will definitely buy it

[–] afraid_of_zombies 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In the basement of a certain pizza place in DC.

No one would ever think to check it twice.

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[–] shadearg 3 points 1 year ago

Checks out.

Biden would be tied for second and third highest offender in that curve.

Mighty sus...

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

tbf accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt, so I feel like Nixon should at least have a little bit of a bar there.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was sadly never charged.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you weren't charged, but make a legally binding admission of guilt, have you committed a felony?

I feel like this is like, something they teach in some extra credit course at law school lmao

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (9 children)

It says "charged," not "committed." Every president has probably committed felonies.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Ah, you're right, it does say 'charged'.

[–] son_named_bort 7 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I'm not sure William Henry Harrison had time to commit any felonies while president.

[–] afraid_of_zombies 6 points 1 year ago

I can't even fathom how many Andrew Jackson must have ranked up.

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[–] jdreben 59 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why take a screenshot? Why not link to the Mastodon post and let it inline render. Or does Lemmy not do inline rendering of links from Mastodon like Firefish does?

That’s a big miss / needed feature if so. Last thing we need is more taking screenshots and reposting across the internet. Fediverse is perfectly positioned to do better than that.

[–] FlightyPenguin 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

looks like this in Connect, missing its title

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess Obama was indicted for the tan suit and dijon mustard incidents

[–] eran_morad 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Desistance 3 points 1 year ago

I forgot all about that 🤭

[–] Selkie210 32 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Felonies Georg is adn outlier and should not have been counted

[–] RGB3x3 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The point is that the loser has so many charges that the average across 46 presidents, 45 of whom have zero, is now 2.

That probably also says something about the lack of accountability for US presidents because there's definitely a nonzero number of other presidents who have committed felonies.

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

fyi the comment you're replying to is a reference to Spiders Georg

[–] RGB3x3 8 points 1 year ago

Oh shit, it's been so long since I heard that, it passed completely over my head.

[–] wizenheimer 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~Covfefe?

But seriously you've had a stroke get that shit checked out.~~

Edit: TIL about a tumblr meme

Edit 2: and that Idk how to cross stuff out on Lemmy

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

it's a reference to spiders georg

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[–] TootSweet 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stop the timeline, please. I want to get off.

[–] Donjuanme 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We're riding this baby into the ground. Dicks out and bottoms up boys and girls.

[–] Hazdaz 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] CADmonkey 3 points 1 year ago

MAGAts can't read

Adjusted for accuracy

[–] AllonzeeLV 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Remember this when our hyper-capitalist politicians and CEOs crow about what a "wealthy nation" we are despite this:

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/3/8/23618237/homelessness-tent-encampments-housing-affordable

And this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/two-in-three-can-t-cover-400-emergency-in-us-suze-orman-survey

We look wealthy statistically because of this: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

We're just a gold plated cesspool of greed, exploitation, and greed worship.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I wonder what the average would be if they were charged with the crimes they actually did order done?

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