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[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 144 points 2 years ago

Median and mode are 0. Mean is at 2.

A great way to teach averages.

[-] penguin@sh.itjust.works 74 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago

My favorite is averaging testicles and including both sexes.

[-] moody@lemmings.world 28 points 2 years ago

The average person has less than one testicle

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.

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 2 years ago

Well, the numbers seem to say yes

[-] bric@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

What numbers, because while it's not exactly easy to google for, the numbers I'm seeing don't line up with that. Undescended testicles are relatively common, but that's fixable by surgery and they aren't missing, while testicular cancer, surgical castration (not chemical), and transgender surgeries all seem to account for far less than 1% of the population.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

"Yeah, mutants"

[-] doppelgangmember@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

I know of these operations and have used them

But man, this really does highlight the diffs

[-] paper_clip@kbin.social 81 points 2 years ago

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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Where is Joe Biden hiding all those bodies?

[-] BeardedSingleMalt@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

"Definitely not Hunter Biden's Laptop"

Description: This 2021 Dell XPS 13 was definitely not owned by Hunter Biden and we do not know why you would think that. It features a 13.4" screen, which Hunter Biden most certainly did not use to look at child pornography, a 4.1 GhZ Intel Core i3-1115G4 with integrated GPU, which did not process video calls between Hunter and Joe Biden where Hunter used his connections with Joe as leverage in Burisma, 8GB LPDDR4x 4267MHz memory, which was not used to cache videos Hunter took of himself naked as he recorded them, and a 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD which ABSOLUTELY DOES NOT contain any compromising material about either Hunter or Joe Biden which would end the Biden presidency and tank any chances of re-election.

Price: $650

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

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

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

In the basement of a certain pizza place in DC.

No one would ever think to check it twice.

[-] jdreben@lemmy.world 60 points 2 years ago

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@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago
[-] isVeryLoud@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

looks like this in Connect, missing its title

[-] Selkie210@lemmy.world 35 points 2 years ago

Felonies Georg is adn outlier and should not have been counted

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] oneiros 19 points 2 years ago

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

[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

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

[-] totallynotarobot@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~Covfefe?~~

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

TIL about a tumblr meme

[-] Lux 5 points 2 years ago

it's a reference to spiders georg

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[-] Semi-Hemi-Demigod@kbin.social 33 points 2 years ago

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

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago
[-] Desistance@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I forgot all about that 🤭

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

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

[-] shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago
[-] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What can I do for you?

[-] AllonzeeLV@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Mostly valid criticism, but the poorest American is still one of the richest people in the world despite our kneecapping of the housing market and insufficient social safety nets.

Also has literally nothing to do with capitalism, since this isn't a thing inherent to all capitalist countries.

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

American is still one of the richest people in the world despite our kneecapping of the housing market and insufficient social safety nets.

Okay, but what does that mean when the average American has a notably lower quality of life than competing poorer nations? Because that sounds like typical "starving kids in Africa have it worse, stop complaining" thought-terminating cliches that serve to end a discussion rather than find possible solutions.

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Gonna need to see a citation on that claim there chief

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

On my phone so I can't do tons of research, but if you want the long short then just go here and check how many countries ranked higher than America that have lower GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report#2023_report

Of course you can nitpick certain stats to no end, so I'll primarily focus on the disparity of

-Annual vacation days

-Public healthcare

-Public transportation, and

-Public education

that the average American has compared to other developed nations

[-] SCB@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Happiness and QOL are not directly related, and happiness is much more of a cultural thing than a cost of living thing.

I'm all for the bullets you list but that doesn't make these concepts shared ideas.

[-] Ejh3k@midwest.social 6 points 2 years ago

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

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