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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨lena@gregtech.eu⁩ to ⁨science_memes@mander.xyz⁩

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  • yesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • mister_flibble@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Alternatively:

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      • Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The way he holds that laptop in the second panel horrifies me.

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe the causation is the other way around. People are only willing to attend a statistics class once they are on the way (but not fully aware yet) to understand that correlation doesn’t imply causation.

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  • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Looks like an AI generated image to me. Lots of strange artifacts an artist wouldn’t create. And there’s something uncanny about the stippling pattern I’ve seen before in AI images.

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Site from the watermark:

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    • Uli@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, somehow it looked AI before I clicked into it for the high res version, something about the way the guy’s face was drawn. And when I saw the high res, it was really obvious, because the pupils are askew in a way a true artist would not have chosen. And as you say, the stippling pattern is typical of AI. Weird that our brains seem to be some of the best competitors in the arms race between creating and identifying AI images.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The top right one is definitely not drawn by a human, it’s right out hexagons. Noone cross-hatches like that because you can’t cross-hatch like that there’s no lines going straight through.

      The rest could be artistic choice, compression artifacts, or other stuff though. Well, some minor stuff, the topmost book on the left pile on the desk on the right is sus, and there’s way too many sponges at the base of the chalkboard. But none of them are dead tells like the hexagons.

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      • spookex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Idk about that, I used to sometimes work for a group that translates manga and have seen similar patterns to that

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    • DogWater@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How did you spot that? I’m good at spotting real life images but I didn’t even blink at this one. I saw one thing when I went back after reading your comment, but it took me a minute to find it

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I work a lot with AI images, you just get a sense for it over time. It is getting harder over the years as things improve however.

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This looks shopped — I can tell from some of the pixels, and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

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    • RedSnt@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was thinking so as well. Mostly because of the left pupil not looking like the right pupil, but also the style. The style of shadow below the chalkboard looks like a really odd choice.

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    • lena@gregtech.eu ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Hmm, maybe. I honestly can’t tell.

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      • pennomi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s certainly better than most! For instance the text looks excellent. Look at the scientist’s eyes for a clue - one of them has a suspicious white circle while the other doesn’t, and the asymmetry does not seem to be intentional.

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like the meme, but I don’t think it actually works. The implication here is that there’s a correlation between confusing correlation with causation and dying. But there isn’t such a correlation. You are statistically equally likely to die either way

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    • credo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      THATS THE JOKE

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      • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, it’s not. The joke is that there is a correlation, but that actually correlation doesn’t mean causation. But here we have a situation where there is neither correlation nor causation.

        The problem is that the joke suggests that correlation is when A -> B (or at least it appears as such). Implication (in formal logic) is not the same as correlation.

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    • RedditRefugee69@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is why you never check the comments on a joke you initially thought was funny.

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You are statistically equally likely to die either way

      That just adds an additional layer to the joke without undermining the intended punchline about people confusing the two.

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  • borokov@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Leave this here: www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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    • milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wow, I nearly ignored your link - glad I didn’t!

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      • rowanthorpe@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think some of the expandable GenAI “made-up explanations” and “images” on that page are the icing on the cake.

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  • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I knew a guy who did that one time. Know what happened? He’s DEAD.

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    • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      His name was Jimi Hendrix!

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  • doingthestuff@lemy.lol ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
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    • MutilationWave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Dihydrogen monoxide?

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    • TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It seems Hydrogen dioxide is pretty deadly too. We’re all fucking doomed.

      You’re not wrong about that.

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  • admin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I mean, yes. But also…

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    • SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s the joke…

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      • Mad_Punda@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I absolutely got whooshed there.

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      • admin@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah is like they confused that

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  • Worx@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve never confused correlation with causation and I’m not dead. I think I know why

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  • Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Brilliant!

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  • BevelGear@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Here’s a website dedicated to spurious correlations

    tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me: 'It sure looks like rising CO2 levels are bringing climate change."

    Them: “coRreLaTIOn dOes Not MEan cAusaTIon!”

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    water cures covid

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    you almost had me dying for this one

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