OneMeaningManyNames @ whydudothatdrcrane @lemmy.ml

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This sounds valid. I wonder how many Scandinavians switched to Linux because of Windows 11.

Fair. You know these figures right out from the graph don't you?

Ah the statistical significance, which as everybody knows is assessed ...visually? Mic drop

BTW I have another comment here, totally irrelevant to this discussion, that I bring up statistical siGnifiCAnsE as an example of confident falsehood. Thanks for proving me right lol

Edit: here it is for context ( from https://lemmy.ml/post/17638298/12096466 )

Layman statistics is not the hill I would die on. Otherwise (being guilty of the fallacy myself) I now think that making a subject mandatory school lesson will only make people more confidently incorrect about it, so this is another hill I won’t die on for probability and statistics. See for instance the widespread erroneous layman use of “statistical significance” (like “your sample of partners is not statistical significant”) you see it is a lost cause. They misinterpret it because they were taught it. Also professionals have been taught it and mess it up more than regularly to the point we can’t trust studies or sth any more. So the solution you suggest is teach more of it? Sounds a bit like the war on drugs.

The difference (in self-reported subjective happiness rating 1–10 too) is not as significant as the graphic implies visually

Ah here is another one. So what? It makes the difference more distinguishable, which also the graph denotes numerically. Otherwise all Linux distros users would appear too flat to make any difference interpretable.

The fact that there are at least two such comments around here shows why teaching anything in schools is doomed to fail.

Even critical thinking skills are applied in a canned, thought-terminating fashion, similar to how XX/XY chromosomes are considered the only reality, in overconfident falsehood.

because the happiness view doesn’t start at 0

How is that so?

Perhaps somebody fucked him white.

Gold

Hmm, point taken.

Um, is it the one though that transphobes focus on because of their obvious fear of emasculation?

Wait what, you mean all of my memes are incomprehensible? There was one unfortunate meme I thoroughly explained, but people heavily downvote me still lol

This would explain the downvotes lol

Some transphobes say that gender identity goes against not only biology but also physics. I don't think that the biology part is valid, and it has long been debunked. But people who think that physics dictates cisgenderism are on a whole other level of stupid. Alonso and Finn is a well established Physics textbook, which makes no reference to sex or gender in it. Because simply physics has nothing to say about gender, and in this context they using the term is just confused oonga-boonga to mean "science". In reality, transphobes are the science-deniers here and they are structural equivalents of conspiracy theorists. I hope that clears things up.

Material in the sense of the basic physical quantities like length and charge? No. You need to add a splash of ethnography in your materialism.

Indeed. I always read these charts like the more you go right/down you include the squares in your left and up side.

No, saying that community activism is a science but physics is not is just absurd. You definitely progress until you draw the line.

Maybe we can get some data by infighting in a pseudonymous forum.

Excellent idea, lol

Excuse me, are you whining about Marxism not making the first square together with physics? That would be a rather peculiar statement, but you present it as if it were self evident. Just in case you are shallowly serious I may respond that physics does not acknowledge social reality and admittedly it can hardly account for organic life. Marxism, in the common understanding is a scientific theory of social reality. The fact that it is an economic reductionist theory of social reality does not mean it is physics.

As the author of the meme I disagree that such impression is given as to "toddlers destroying their toys" or "French surrealism" and Marxism being equivalent. May I draw your attention to these neatly distinguishable squares that break the chart up to ample separable plots? They are there to separate things rather than showing their equivalence.

Intent is important I guess

Which country is that?

Absolutely cool. I will have to revise all my internalized cyberpunk imagery though.