you lookin at my hat, stranger?
all video games should be dressup games. if you can't put your guy in a little outfit what's the point
antiques roadshow guests will really say the most chilling sentences on live television and not realize they're creating 3 sentence horror stories.
Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics.
“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”.
If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%.
if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%.
thats how that works.
Wow I don’t understand math at all
‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.
It goes up from .5% to 1%
I think my brain just stopped working
100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.
Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic
This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.
I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.
just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.
Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.
Reblogging again for that last addition.
i hate when other people are funnier than me.
this was a great read. “Laziness Does Not Exist” by Devon Price
I love you dumplings I love you gyoza I love you xiaolongbao I love you wonton I love you baozi I love you mandu and yes even you, ravioli
i love you pierogi
Guy who tells a lot of personal stories but the more he does it the more you realize they're all plots from different episodes of the simpsons
You call him out on it but he has photographs proving every single thing he said is true
You realize someone working on the simpsons has been plagiarizing this guy's oddly eventful personal life for the last 30 years
Advice from 4500 years ago.
I like ths translation. “it would be wise of you to remember this”