Comment on Bought to you by the central limit theorem society
rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoMan, I hate these stupid jokes. Every time someone goes “statistically, one in three people is X, now look at the person to your left and right”, I want to scream “HAHAHAHAHAHAH SO FUNNY THAT’S STATISTICS FOR YOU AMIRITE” with an absolutely straight face. Bad enough they don’t know how statistics work, but they’re perpetuating other people’s ignorance on top of that.
blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 days ago
The unfunnyness and homophobia of the joke aside, this kind of joke doesn’t expect people to actually believe that statistics work this way. Part of the joke is the ridiculousness of expecting statistics to work that way. While there may indeed be some people so stupid/ignorant that they DO expect statistics to work this way, that’s not really the way this kind of humor is meant to work.