The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.
That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.
I just assume all humans are being manipulative and
never trust whatever it is they are saying
can’t get fooled if you assume everyone and everything is crooked
and statistically, you’ll be mostly right.
Many people have the capacity. And there are enough shitty people that they will take advantage if given the opportunity.
But most people are just trying to live their lives as best they can, and much of their selfishness can be unlearned, or isn’t really selfishness anyway, just survival instinct and misinformation
That’s because there’s always someone bringing politics into casual conversations and it’s tiresome. Yes the world is fucked, most of us here are well aware. Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.
Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.
I’d like only escapism please,
even escapism is political of course,
because everything is political anyway,
but as long as you don’t look up it’s fine !
Seeing your relatively high involvement in defending a simple “joke”, I’d say you’re more triggered than the ones down voting, but whatever, you do you.
I don’t really care, I laughed at the joke. I only find it sad we can’t shitpost in a shitposting community anymore without dumb fucks downvoting it.
In case you’re still stuck on Reddit mechanisms, downvotes are not a disagree button. It should be reserved for out of place comments that do not further the discussion.
Nah, it’s the perfect example of why the median is a pathetic excuse of a statistical tool that is only used by those that wish to opress minorities
the median person uses 0mg of meth a day, the mean person uses about 1.7mg per day.
medians supress minorities
The median is a statistical fact that can be used by humans in both good and bad ways. Lots of data can be made to look lots of different ways in the hands of different people.
That’s why teaching critical thinking (not just the skills but the importance and value) is paramount. People need to understand what they’re looking at. Because sometimes you want the mean, other times you want the median, and if you can’t even understand when you might want one or the other or both for different reasons then you can be led around by the nose with either.
You fell for the shitpost
I provided a proper explanation for the silent observers ;)
I just assume all humans are being manipulative and
never trust whatever it is they are saying
can’t get fooled if you assume everyone and everything is crooked
and statistically, you’ll be mostly right.
Ehhhhhhhh that’s generally untrue honestly.
Many people have the capacity. And there are enough shitty people that they will take advantage if given the opportunity.
But most people are just trying to live their lives as best they can, and much of their selfishness can be unlearned, or isn’t really selfishness anyway, just survival instinct and misinformation
😂 how does the fact that that average person doesn’t use meth oppress anyone?
makes meth addicts feel left out
So we can solve drug abuse by being nice?
:-D that’s actually funny. Keep it up, ignore the people that don’t understand satire and downvote.
How can everyone miss the shitpost in the shitposting community. Seeing all the downvotes is so funny
That’s because there’s always someone bringing politics into casual conversations and it’s tiresome. Yes the world is fucked, most of us here are well aware. Let us enjoy some escapism every now and then, maybe.
I’d like only escapism please,
even escapism is political of course,
because everything is political anyway,
but as long as you don’t look up it’s fine !
Nah, not everything is political. You can make everything political, however. The comment above is a case in point.
It is a joke in a joke sub. Take a break from the news if random shitposts are triggering you
Seeing your relatively high involvement in defending a simple “joke”, I’d say you’re more triggered than the ones down voting, but whatever, you do you.
I don’t really care, I laughed at the joke. I only find it sad we can’t shitpost in a shitposting community anymore without dumb fucks downvoting it.
In case you’re still stuck on Reddit mechanisms, downvotes are not a disagree button. It should be reserved for out of place comments that do not further the discussion.
It’s almost as if the different forms of averages are useful for different applications.
You gain a lot more information about a dataset when you have both the mean and the median, compared to just the mean.