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Data speaks for itself (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

phacking p-hacking

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"Never trust a statistic you didn't take yourself."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Should be 'fake' not 'take', right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yep, that was a typo. Whoops

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 96 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

May I add this classic?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Marlboro

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I didn’t.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

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