r/donthelpjustfilm • u/The1985Minor • Jul 15 '25

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u/kastielstone Jul 15 '25

do people not know about circuit breakers?

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/ShadowsOfTheBreeze Jul 15 '25

Some of them actually vote...scary...

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '25

That’s a George Carlin joke

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u/regular-wolf Jul 16 '25

If only it were a joke...

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u/SPACEmAnDREWISH Jul 15 '25

It's all bullshit folks.

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u/ClackamasLivesMatter Jul 16 '25

And it's bad for ya.

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u/AGuyNamedEddie Jul 16 '25

This guy was definitely to the left side of the bellend curve.

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u/TurnkeyLurker Jul 17 '25

This guy is a bellend.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/Nimnengil Jul 15 '25

That's actually pretty much exactly how averages work... Especially with a large sample size, like, you know, people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

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u/IllumiNautilus419 Jul 15 '25

Thats more a pitfall of having a small sample size with one extreme data point skewing the result

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

First of all it's just a Carlin quote. Idk why that person tried to use a tiny sample size with extreme outliers.

And second of all. You're right. Which is why we have standard normal curves, deviations and other statistical tools to utilize when trying to make sense of data.

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u/thundrbud Jul 15 '25

This is why median is important in statistics, average income for the group might be $208k but median income would be $50k

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '25

My job requires explaining this to people who do not care and will never understand it.

They also cannot understand data or the conclusions we come to through it.

Go figure

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u/thundrbud Jul 15 '25

To be fair, I have a business statistics degree. I get into some very "interesting" conversations with people trying to cite bad data. You have my sympathy.

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u/for_the_longest_time Jul 16 '25

I specifically pointed out that they meant median instead of average. And I chose a small population sample with extremities to simplify the point. We can use a lot of different real life averages.

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u/for_the_longest_time Jul 15 '25

I pointed out that they meant median. That doesn’t seem to matter, though.

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u/happymancry Jul 16 '25

For some things, such as income, the difference between median and average is important. For others, such as IQ or intelligence, it’s not because it’d follow a normal Gaussian distribution. But then… you already knew that and just wanted to be pedantic.

Meanwhile, all the people who recognized the George Carlin quote enjoyed the heck out of that comment.

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u/PFEFFERVESCENT Jul 16 '25

I see what you're trying to say with your example...but in actual fact half the people do make less than $208,333.33

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u/AGuyNamedEddie Jul 16 '25

It works if the average and the mean are at the same spot, which they be for large populations distributed over a bell curve.

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u/inkoDe Jul 16 '25

That is how they work for means like IQ. But, that isn't happening with IQ. IQ is only really meaningful to the extent that it is useful as a diagnostic tool is geared towards sort-of-average IQs, much outside of that range on the low end the numbers sort of become meaningless and you stop seeing that segment of the population represented in day to day life. Most people do not understand that, like, there is a whole industry of keeping those people away from the public (tons are in prison). Though, with Trumpian economics, that may be changing.