Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are.

• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There might be no difference. In memes or casual conversation the difference usually doesn’t matter, but when thinking about important things like government policy or medical science, the difference between mean and median is very important - which is why they both exist.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    1. A joke is definitely casual conversation

    2. Mathematically, the difference becomes increasingly statistically insignificant as your population size increases. Sure maybe there’s a few niche cases where a hundred-thousandth of a percent difference matters, but that’s not even worth bringing up.

    3. The only reason any of you even bring it up is to try and sound smart in a pedantic, “ackshually” way.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      We all have our idiosyncracies. For some it’s being overly technical, for others it’s imagining negative motivations.

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        This whole comment chain was me shutting down an “ackshually” with an even better one.

        If you’re gonna be an annoying pedantic dick, you better be RIGHT, or someone else will be an even more annoying pedantic dick to you.

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• andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not in all cases. When I teach mean, median and mode, I usually bring up household income. Mean income is heavily skewed by outliers (billionaires), median is a more representative measure.

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  • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    IQ is though

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IQ is also garbage when it comes to the validity of what it claims to measure.

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