535
Barely half score above the Median
We can do so much better...
Up lemmyed, funny, but for anyone else confused about the satire https://www.truthorfiction.com/rep-jack-kimble-a-whopping-25-of-american-students-are-in-the-bottom/
That's the frustrating thing about the current internet climate. In a time when less and less people are interested in researching the backstory of a tweet/policy/person, things like this are shared w/o context. Had to go down a rabbit hole to realize it's a fake satire writer.
I get where you're coming from and tend to agree. And yet in this case, he says the bottom 25% are in the bottom 25%. That's literally just how numbers work. That's the entire substance of the post. That seems a clear joke, imo.
But I guess I say that, and then there's Rep MTG who says far dumber shit, except completely seriously. I guess it's hard to tell the difference between joke stupid and real stupid these days.
it's frustrating that people react and spread misinformation without doing the bare minimum of research, but I don't think making obvious satire is frustrating. if anything hopefully people learn from it and stop taking screenshots of things as truths
True.
I think that as we move towards shorter and shorter clips/tweets, there's an assumed prior context that is often missing. For example, Borat or Stephen Colbert's character on The Daily Show are clear caricatures but when you have a 5-second clip out of context, it actually feeds into the narrative it is ridiculing.
The same goes for naming cosplaying an elected official.
things like this are shared w/o context
I mean, the only information in that truthorfiction link that wasn't in the original tweet is that Jack Kimble is not a real representative.
Apart from that, there is no other context. The tweet is exactly as it appears to be, it's not a reference to anything else.
Either you understand that it's a joke or not.
Drag assumed it was a joke to begin with. The graph is too generic.
That page was a lot of waffle to say it's a satire tweet from a fictional congressman.
Next you'll probably tell me that one out of every four people make up 25% of the population. Hogwash!
Sometimes it don't always be like it is but it do.
Not familiar with the poster, is this satire?
I commented at the same time as you, otherwise I'd have replied to you directly. It is a real tweet, but satire, Jack Kimble is not a real politician (he purports to represent California's 54th district, out of 52).
Aaah, it's that guy, cheers.
As a person educated in the American system I can confirm I've never heard the word quartile before.
I want to see this graphed over time
Lucky for you, the post contains an animated JPEG showing the change over time
people in the lower quartile coming in the comment section looking for explanation
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Blud need to put his data points on the chart so we know whose in each percentile
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2024
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