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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 96 points 4 weeks ago (5 children)
[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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)

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 12 points 4 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

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 weeks ago

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 27 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 4 weeks ago

I didn’t.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 8 points 4 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

[–] Ashen44@lemmy.ca 19 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 19 points 4 weeks ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 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.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 weeks ago
[–] resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Schneemann@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] Schneemann@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 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.

[–] resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, that was a typo. Whoops

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 15 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] 7empest@beehaw.org 2 points 3 weeks 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

[–] doodimus@beehaw.org 8 points 4 weeks ago

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

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 6 points 4 weeks ago

phacking p-hacking