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Szewek @lemm.ee

3d ago

Data speaks for itself

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May I add this classic?
- 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)
  
  I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was... not the best
- What the actual fuck
  
  Look at the scale one the left.
  (It’s upside down)
- 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.
- there's actually no fucking way
  
  I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.
- Marlboro

phacking p-hacking

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

"Never trust a statistic you didn't take yourself."
- Should be 'fake' not 'take', right?
  
  History Trivia: No one outside Germany knows that "Churchill-quote" because it was made up by Nazi propaganda.

"Yes, the pronounced hammer coefficients as evidenced by these repeated indentations in the flattened curve..."

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

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