Data speaks for itself
from Szewek@lemm.ee to science_memes@mander.xyz on 09 May 09:01
https://lemm.ee/post/63476200

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tetris11@lemmy.ml on 09 May 10:30 next collapse

“Yes, the pronounced hammer coefficients as evidenced by these repeated indentations in the flattened curve…”

BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works on 09 May 10:30 next collapse

May I add this classic?

<img alt="" src="https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/d839620c-dbc6-412e-9107-c42dc5e41f00.png">

Ashen44@lemmy.ca on 09 May 10:50 next collapse

there’s actually no fucking way

Signtist@lemm.ee on 09 May 11:31 collapse

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

oxideseven@lemmy.ca on 09 May 11:35 next collapse

What the actual fuck

AtariDump@lemmy.world on 09 May 12:05 collapse

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

oxideseven@lemmy.ca on 09 May 12:42 next collapse

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

AtariDump@lemmy.world on 09 May 12:51 collapse

I didn’t.

kogasa@programming.dev on 09 May 15:48 collapse

I thought at first the point was that murders had gone down because they were suddenly technically legal. The inverted scale thing is worse

hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 09 May 11:37 next collapse

Marlboro

echolalia@lemmy.ml on 09 May 12:04 next collapse

Fucking lol. I can’t believe that shit’s real and from Reuters of all places.

I couldn’t find the graph on an original Reuters article (they must have gotten embarrassed and pulled it down lmao), but Business Insider still has it on their version of the article

(edit: and this is just time vs murders, not time vs gun deaths, a better statistic for this)

AccountMaker@slrpnk.net on 09 May 15:36 collapse

I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was… not the best

Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works on 10 May 03:09 collapse

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

tetris11@lemmy.ml on 09 May 16:31 collapse

that can’t be real… why would gun deaths go down after such a law is passed? I don’t understand the world…

Edit: Oh I read the other comments. Yeah that scale is stupid.

doodimus@beehaw.org on 09 May 11:03 next collapse

Funny how beating a defenseless creature to death with a hammer was just seen as another everyday activity for your typical Saint.

resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works on 09 May 11:24 next collapse

“Never trust a statistic you didn’t take yourself.”

Schneemann@discuss.tchncs.de on 09 May 13:05 collapse

Should be ‘fake’ not ‘take’, right?

General_Effort@lemmy.world on 09 May 23:39 next collapse

History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that “Churchill-quote” because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.

Schneemann@discuss.tchncs.de on 10 May 08:18 collapse

After a quick search I found lots of pages that attributed it to Churchill or Goebbels but apparently there is actually no record of one of them saying it.

resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works on 15 May 13:27 collapse

Yep, that was a typo. Whoops

Midnitte@beehaw.org on 09 May 14:48 next collapse

If you torture the data long enough, hey look at how low I got my p-value.

7empest@beehaw.org on 10 May 15:58 collapse

Cull the outliers… Not low enough

Transform the data… Not low enough

Normalise the data… Not low enough

Alter the model by adding random effects… Not low enough.

The major factors showed a trend towards significance… therefore our hypothesis was met.

Hello PhD

mo_lave@reddthat.com on 10 May 02:54 collapse

phacking p-hacking