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?
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
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wise_pancake@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 2y
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@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 2y
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Are you a zork fan?
tdawg@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
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@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I think average just means "normative" to most people.
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 28 pts · 2y
I'm following NCD so that I don't need to read any other news. It's a huge time save
CluckN@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
It gets bad when they predict the news
newnton@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 2y
Soon you’ll arrive at the next stage, reading other news so you can make better NCD memes
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 2y
That's terminal right?
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
no, the end phase is causing the news so you can make better NCD memes
Aremel@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y
This reads like "task failed successfully"
Chuymatt@kbin.social · 20 pts · 2y
https://amp.knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg
onion@feddit.de · 5 pts · 2y
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg
Johanno@feddit.de · 4 pts · 2y
Thanks. Luckily I just eat 3 spiders a day