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  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    The fuckig disrespect to barely blur this man’s face and post him in a photoshopped t-shirt that makes him look like a piece of shit.

    What the fuck is wrong with you? What did this man do to you that you would post this online? You think that blur job is doing anything?

    “Relax, it’s just a joke”

    PEOPLES LIVES HAVE BEEN RUINED FOR THIS KIND OF SHIT! All it takes is one dumbfuck to not see that it’s a joke to cause a problem. One parent who complains to the admin who grill this guy for no reason. One shithead student who starts a rumor about him.

    Fuck you OP. I hope someone plasters YOUR shitty blurred face all over the internet and tries to tie YOU to being a racist, elitist, piece of shit.

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      5 hours ago

      I’m a bit stoned, so that might play a factor but… I’ve just sat there staring at those statistics and graphs in awe for a solid 10 minutes. Thanks for this!

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        5 hours ago

        No, those lines to straight and flush because that man is so buff and doesn’t move his torso. At. All. Ever heard of Iron board abs? That’s this guy. Keeping his shirt logos flush since 1977

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    12 hours ago

    Teaching students to not conflate correlation with causation by pointing out absurd assumptions of causality from real correlations.

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      9 hours ago

      My favourite argument is that; The amount of people buying ice creams and the amount of people drowning also looks like curves that follow each other. But less ices creams will not make less people drown. They both go up because of good weather conditions. They do not influence each other.

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        9 hours ago

        The historical version of this was the ww2 airplane patch job stats, where american bombers returning after getting hit were hit in specific areas and the statistician had to explain that those who returned despite that damage meant those were not the places to reinforce but the other areas of the plane makeing it more survivable, or more recently how Santa Monica CA almost removed crosswalks because that was where the highest pedestrian mortally rates were. In both those cases the people making the assumptions missed the bigger picture, for the planes that those who got hit in more sensitive spots got downed and for pedestrians getting killed at crosswalks that was because that is where pedestrians cross the street most of the time, almost leading to more deaths.

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      No, it’s not about fiat currency, it’s about the changes to the economy caused by the rise of MBAs and business executives who had different ideas about the way business should use profits (stock buybacks and hiring bureaucrats rather than raises and expansion) and what a company should do (make money rather than provide goods and services at a profit). Read some Graeber to understand more. All this was part of the beginnings of neoliberalism which is the actual problem here, and the end of countries following Keynesian economic policies. And in the US the weakening of unions and the new deal also played a role.

      Well at least that’s the case for the economic graphs there. Things like single motherhood and higher divorce rates stem from feminism winning the right to no fault divorce and the ability for a single mother to be less trapped into a relationship she doesn’t want. Several of these graphs stem from social changes in the late 20th century.

      There were a lot of economic issues under metallic currency including somewhat frequent panics and crashes.

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      10 hours ago

      only 7 years to save for a house? well maybe i guess if you don’t have major emergencies. i’m going to go laugh madly in the corner now.

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    14 hours ago

    I believe the correct answer to OPs question is "an object lesson in the difference between correlation and causality.

    Or proof he doesn’t understand that difference, whichever applies.

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    20 hours ago

    this image is photoshopped. i can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

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        20 hours ago

        I don’t know that it’s AI, but the graph is obviously drawn over the picture. I think the original was just making of the professor for wearing a t-shirt over a flannel shirt

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              The biggest giveaways are the weirdly pixelated faces (used to hide obvious AI elements) the awkward pose, the way the plaid pattern on the left side (his right arm, just before the white sleeve) merges together, the lack of any other version of this image existing (which is common for photo shopped images) and that when this is run through AI detection software it is flagged as such.

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                I’m pretty sure this image is not AI because of the background composition. While I agree the pattern on the right arm looks a little weird, that alone doesn’t proof it’s AI. It could be edited using AI but might just be photoshopped. Also you shouldn’t trust AI detection software, it doesn’t work.