Submitted 8 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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How to lie with statistics.
First, log log scale.
Second, we know variance will scale with sample size, so they should have plotted against the coefficient of variation (sigma/ mu).
Other wise they’d have us believing that there are either 1000 turds in the microwave or none.
Schroeder’s turds.
Puzzled BC wildlife ecologist can’t keep the bears from shitting in his microwave, further research is needed.
Sure, it can happen to anyone once, but twice?
Bill wasn’t sure when his humble turd counting hobby became an obsession…
“That shit tracks”
Scatistics
kbal@fedia.io 8 months ago
Teaching the beavers to use a microwave oven had less benefit to the regional ecology than had been hoped for.