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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 43 points 8 months ago

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 84 points 8 months ago
[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Are you a zork fan?

[-] tdawg@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

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 points 8 months ago

I think average just means "normative" to most people.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 28 points 8 months ago

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 points 8 months ago

It gets bad when they predict the news

[-] newnton@sh.itjust.works 18 points 8 months ago

Soon you’ll arrive at the next stage, reading other news so you can make better NCD memes

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 8 months ago
[-] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

no, the end phase is causing the news so you can make better NCD memes

[-] Aremel@lemmy.world 22 points 8 months ago

This reads like "task failed successfully"

[-] Chuymatt@kbin.social 22 points 8 months ago
[-] Johanno@feddit.de 4 points 8 months ago

Thanks. Luckily I just eat 3 spiders a day

[-] LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 6 points 8 months ago

I found out about both Henry Kissinger's and Toby Keith's deaths through memes. I don't think memes Georg should be a statistical anomaly.

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Learning about Henry Kissinger via a meme is surprising to say the least.

Also wtf Toby Keith died?

[-] Baahb@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago
[-] exocrinous@lemm.ee 5 points 8 months ago

All shared ideas are memes

this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2024
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