JeeBaiChow
@JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world
- Comment on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding 2 weeks ago:
Oh, and over 90% of ‘facts’ used in an argument are simply made up.
- Comment on More than half of adults in U.S. say they lack basic statistical understanding 2 weeks ago:
Beyond a certain size, we lose the ability to intuitively understand numbers.
Examples? Sure:
- how many people misunderatood the scale of the undertaking of trying to find mh370 in the ocean without any detailed guidance
- how far billionaires are from the average person (i once argued that just having a comfortable home and a computer or cellphone put one comfortably in the top earners in the world - people dont understand the sheer scale of poverty or income inequality as it applies to the global situation)
- how only the top ~100 atp/ wta tennis players actually make enough to comfortably cover basic tour costs
- how absolutely vast the universe is. Voyager is slightly over a billion km from the earth rn, and it only means it has travelled a light day from the time it was launched
Feel free to add your own
- Comment on Always Be in the Right Condition 1 month ago:
Mcgregor is done after 68 sec. Injured his own knee.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima ‘really sad’ about PlayStation killing discs, ‘frightened’ for future of ownership 2 months ago:
Doesnt stop them from proclaimimg things like ‘refuse to buy for the rest of my life’, ‘X is dead to me’ or ‘this marks the end of console gaming for me’, though.
- Comment on Reign of terror 2 months ago:
The only hard legos that dont hurt when you step on em in the middle of the night?
- Comment on Trump's triple-digit tariff essentially cuts off most trade with China, says economist 1 year ago:
Question: are the Chinese goods still cheaper than their US equivalents, in spite of the 145% tariffs? If so, what does china care? It’s only the us consumer that will pay the price.
- Comment on Donald Trump imposes tariffs but Canada and Mexico hit back 1 year ago:
Like an idiot bully, he didn’t expect them to fight back.
- Comment on Square Enix Has Set Up A New Policy To Go After Harassers 1 year ago:
Tbf some of the fans are obsessed with righteous things like tifas bust measurements and whether cloud is a closet femboy bottom.