#certain statistics

[creekfiend]

I saw this on FB today and I wanna try and express something about it. Like, you know the curbcutter effect? Where when curbcuts are put in it benefits everyone (bicyclists, people with baby strollers etc) and not just disabled people?

There is also whatever the opposite of the curbcutter effect is. And this is that.

This isn't just anti-adhd/autism propaganda... this is anti-child propaganda.

Kids have developmentally appropriate ways that they need to move their bodies and express themselves and sitting perfectly still staring straight ahead is not natural or good for ANY CHILD.

Don't get me wrong, I was punished unduly as a kid for being neurodivergent (and other types of kid will ALSO be punished unduly for it... Black kids come to mind) and thus UNABLE to perform this -- but even the kids who ARE able to perform this type of behavior are not SERVED WELL by it. They don't benefit from it.

This is bad for everyone.

The idea that bc some kids may be capable of complying with unfair expectations, those expectations don't hurt them... is a dangerous idea. Compliance isn't thriving. Expectation of compliance isn't fair treatment.

#theres a lot of things lately that make me think of this where #people will act like theres this class of people not harmed by something #(laws undermining bodily autonomy come to mind!!!!!) #and its like -- no. the consequences will be worse for some people #but no one is ultimately served by the erosion of bodily autonomy like there is not a class of people who benefit from that #same with lack of right to privacy #there isnt a DEMOGRAPHIC of people who benefit from certain things #there are systems that do. and there may be a handful of individuals who benefit partially or FOR NOW #until those systems are turned against them #i think its important to remind people in certain privileged demographics that like #certain things do benefit them #and others DON'T #you may suffer less statistically but it doesnt benefit you! #its BAD SOCIETALLY.

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: A Certain Magical Index

Sample Size: 505 stories

Source: AO3

#mikoto misaka #kuroko shirai #accelerator #touma kamijou #misaki shokuhou #awaki musujime #teitoku kakine #ruiko saten #kazari uiharu #a certain magical index #acmi #fanfiction #ao3 #statistics #phantom statistician #mikoto x kuroko #kuroko x mikoto

[boinin]

Random poll, cos I saw someone shared a birthday with Sendou and was curious

Check here (my list of Blue Lock birthdays) then come back

#can't guarantee the list is totally up to date... but i try! #i don't share one yet #blue lock #blue lock poll #poll #mine #reblog for bigger sample size #statistically you're more likely to overlap than not after a certain count of people is reached #bllk charas are probably big enough

[bestfurrywife]

If you guys are interested, there's a little bonus game we could play.

I used to play it with a sibling. You pull up a wikipedia list of animals, and the other person picks a random corresponding number. You click that phylum and do it again for the next classification, and repeat until you have a species. Then you draw whatever you get.

Here we would poll for it, and whatever animal we get, I design a character to be the mascot for this blog. Does that sound fun?

#the warning label on this would read that you may get a nematode or sponge #i would also randomize the list because when you have ppl pick a random number theres a skew towards certain numbers #for phyla i would also only include ones with 10000+ plus species to reduce the chances of getting worms #i would like worms to have a normal chance and not like an 80% chance #flips my hair and giggles yes im a biologist yes i took one semester of statistics

[cypric-rat-hyperfixation]

As my following grows and as I meet more and more people who have rats, had rats, know someone who has/had rats, and love rats...

increasingly I wonder if/when a day will come... a day that I'll express rat enjoyment to someone and they'll enthusiastically ask me if I've heard of This Funnie Little Rodent Blog they like, figuring I may already know it or will enjoy it if not...

and it's.. my blog... and then I have to come out as popular Rat Tumblr blogger that they follow and now know IRL.......

#/lh #I'm saying this like it's some big deal but I'm just exaggerating for comedic effect adjfgsbkdfj #no idea what the likelihood on that looks like. based on statistics of people estimating statistics? probably likelier than we all think #anyway that time I posted a survey for a university research project here and you all wound up comprising 2/3 of our sample was so funny #I had to actually say in an academic research paper that one possible flaw in our study #was bias that may result from 2/3 the sample having come from a niche and extremely specific demographic of people #due to the fact that they flocked in from One Of The Researchers' Substantial Online Following Centered Around A Particular Theme #And Selected Specifically To Have Only A Certain Kind Of Person On It Via Boundaries And Blocking #literally you all made up 98/150 respondents (but that's assuming all digital responses were from y'all-- we had 52 paper responses) #ah but the research symposium was the best. in the paper I was able to remain that generic about it #but at the research symposium. well it's a glorified science fair. so participants have their own stations set up and observers tour them #as the participants speak to their audience; directly providing a summary and then answering any questions #some of the audience/observers are faculty and most are fellow students #so real scholarly scientific types yeah? so they had questions. thoughtful questions #long story short I confessed to numerous listeners throughout the day that the sample's bizarre gender ratio is probably my fault #around 57% women; 21% nonbinary adults; 17% men-- an unusual proportion #so I had to academically tell my professors... underclassmen..... my classmates....... acquaintances.... foes.......... #... that I'm big famous in Rat #and it was so. djkjSBCJXHQKRIGAJFSHF

[morlock-holmes]

What demonic marketer decided to use the term "hallucination" to describe when a large language model produces text that isn't true?

Because that's like saying that your magic 8 ball has a tendency to hallucinate.

#It makes these models sound a lot more sophisticated though #Did Chat-GPT come up with the term to make itself look better? #chatgpt #Large language models #If you ask a magic 8 ball if the sky is blue #It might say yes but that doesn't mean it understands the sky #It's just statistically it answers yes a certain percentage of the time regardless of what the sky looks like

[dullahandyke]

I do enjoy dressing up all butch tho. The hair also helps. Going to the event like Witness My Gender

#im dykeing the place up!!!! #on one hand being 'visibly queer' implies that a certain level of presentation is required to be Queer Enough #and especially in rural areas theres more pressure to not stand out in how u dress #and by sheer statistics ill run into some queers and have no idea bcos they look identical #but on the other hand CLOCK ME GENDER MEEEEEEEEEEE im just a normal boy with lesbian sensibilities and big swangin honkers

[maddy-ferguson]

"Quick test tho, replace girlfriend with boyfriend and see if ur still bothered by it." me when i'm 7 and have yet to realize that men and women have a very different place in the social hierarchy because we live in a society

#joke 7-year-olds have already realized this because they're smarter than the person i'm quoting #and because they're boys and girls themselves and are treated differently based on that from the moment they're born lmao #i was reading a book the other day (last month) where boys were already doing the weaponized incompetence thing and girls already cleaned #up after them automatically without being asked BEFORE THE AGE OF 5 like it's bad for us (it was like a sociological study) #and literally the weaponized incompetence thing makes sense it's normal/smart to try to get out of doing something you don't wanna do like #chores and stuff but it's the fact that girls internalize that they have to be the ones who stop doing what they're doing to clean up after #boys/men AS CHILDREN and then keep doing that for the rest of their lives. i'll kill myself #i was raised with just my sister and my mom and my sister is the man of the house in the sense that i'll ask her to do things a certain #way a thousand times because it's better for everyone and she'll always be like yeah you're right and then never do it. and i'm always like #if i actually had to go through that with a partner...and with male partners statistically i probably would #when women make posts like oh look what my boyfriend/husband bought vs what i asked for haha he's so silly...KILL HIM #anyway. my point was you internalize it early enough to realize some of it is off as a kid. so why would you say there's nothing wrong with #saying something about women if the same thing being said about men doesn't offend you #like are you stupid #and like i say: brf slt

[bougiebutchbitch]

....just outta curiosity, because there seems to be SO MANY of us for a ‘rare’ disease that’s thought to affect 1:3000 at most.....

Who else has actually been professionally diagnosed with hEDS here?

Who has some degree of Joint Hypermobility Syndrome (hypermobility problems WITHOUT - or with only a couple of - the following: super stretchy skin/scarring anomalies/marfanoid habitus/heart or hernia or prolapse problems/frequent dislocation/etc. (thought to be way more common, like 1:20!))?

Who hasn’t been diagnosed but suspects they have either JHS or hEDS?

#I am legit interested #the stats say one thing and the amount of people I see on the tungle with hEDS says another #which is NOT to discredit anyone lol #if anything it's to discredit the stats #just... fascinating stuff #obligatory note that JHS can of course be more disabling than hEDS in certain cases and rarity =/= severity #obviously people with chronic pain gravitate towards online spaces BUT that should be true of everyone with chronic pain #and there are so many different things that can cause that which are WAY more common (allegedly) than hEDS #but hEDS seems to be way overrepresented according to statistics #which suggests to me that stats are wrong lol (or that a lot of self dx is happening which is fair!) #it's hell to get a dx for this sort of thing so power to you if you self dx #I suspect a lot more awareness needs to be raised about the difference between hEDS and JHS though

[moshieee]

Ew, essays :[

I miss the old days of kindergarten when we attempted to color butterflies and ate erasers and glue

-🎁

I hated kindergarten

Essays may suck but at least now I'm not the weird kid in the corner wishing I had friends

However yes I absolutely despise essays with all my being... in fact!

Achievement unlocked: you somehow found a topic moshie hates enough and on a bad day to start them ranting in the tags...

Warning there are curse words, poor spelling, and caps locks

Sorry in advance

#asks #off topic #seriously tho i hate essays so much #one of them is already 5 pages and thats just the rough draft #i better get a fucking high pass on that shit or i will scream #shes actually making us focus on out writing process and OH HO.HO BOY IS MINE A MESS #I SWEAR ITS LIKE TRYING TO MAKE A SKETCH BUT YOU KEEP PAINTING CERTAIN PARTS BECAUSE IT HAS TO LOOK NICE #ONLY TO RELIZE OH WAIT MAYBE THAT DOESN'T GO THERE AND I SHOULD ACTUALLY SHIFT IT AROUND #OR MAYBE I COULD SWAP THIS TOO BE THAT LOOKS AWFUL AND IT JUST KEEPS GETTING WORSE AND WORSE TILL ITS A RIVER OF BLOOD AND PAINT #AND SHE WANTS TO SEE MY ROUGH DRAFT??? HONNEY YOU WOULD HAVE A BETTER CHANCE AT READING THE MARIO SUNSHINE SPEEDRUN CATEGORY BACKWARDS THEN #UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE FUCK IM TRYING TO WRITE ITS WHY I HAVE TO WRITE IT ALL IN ONE GO OTHERWISE I HAVE TO LOOK BACK AND UNDERSTAND WHAT #WAS GOING THROUGH MY HEAD WHILE LOOKING THROUGH THIS MESS!!! OOOHH WHAT? YOU WANT ME TO ORGANIZE THIS WELL SHIT THATS GOING TO TAKE EVEN #LONGER YOU ALREADY GOT ME WRITING WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE ME STOP MUCH LESS MAKE ME SWITCH SUBJECTS TO ANOTHER ESSAY HALF WAY THROUGH OH BU #AND GUESS WHAT!???? ONE PAGE! DOUBLE SPACE! AND IM NOT GOING TO GIVEN GIVE YOU A DIRECTION TO WRITE IN JUST ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT WE LEARNED #IN THESE LAST TWO WEEKS! TWO WEEKS FUCKING HELL DO YOU KNOW HOW INDECISIVE AND FORGETFUL I AM??? MUCH LESS THE FACT KTS ABOUT ETHNICS #I DIDNT EVEN EANT TO TAKE AN ETHNICS CLASS I WANTED ETHICS I FUCKING HATE EVERY SO MUCH RIGHT NOW #LIKE YEA SURE I KNOW THEY'RE IMPORTANT BUT I STILL HATE ESSAYS and j know my teachers are trying their best... #but jeese ethnics is such a difficult topic because on one had yea i relate to what these people are going through im part of the LGBT #are statistics are very similar but im also bery much a white person and not openly trans/non binary i dont want to look like some stuck up #white person going oooo look at the poor minorities i can TotAlLy relate and now im going to talk about me #because im genuinely scared of coming out idk whos accepting and whos not at least online im safe and can block people... #jeese im sorry for the rant i shouldn't have gone on that much less my art blog #this is supposed to be a positive blog but i just need to put this somewhere or i feel im going to cry out of frustration im sorry #rant post #system #oops moshie got emotional

[literaryhistories]

6. 10. 2023 • 1/100 days of productivity

Decided to do this challenge on a whim. The next few months will be brutal, and I need some sort of log, something to help with accountability.

Today's tasks:

call I to ask about the coffee breaks

title of my conference paper

write the abstract and send to J!!!

draft email for participants!!!!!

reply to J's 5 paragraph email about dissertation that nearly gave me a heart attack but was actually a mental note, albeit a terrifying one

Tasks left for tomorrow:

fix the conf. programme and create a pdf

make a pdf with hotel and venue info

send email to participants before they start thinking they're being ghosted

put together content of the abstract proceedings

Photos: view of the evening sky from our flat and a detail of a word embeddings scatterplot.

#personal #100 days of productivity #phdblr #writing the abstract actually took me a whole day because i have no idea how to prove statistical significance for word clusters #like how certain semantic fields are closer to eachother which is like visible on the plot but i guess i need to prove it's significant #??? #probably calculate cosine distance between all sets of data (loops my unbeloved) and then do something with that info

[taupewolfy]

do....do other countries not have census' ???

#seeing a certain post going around from aus statistics and people being like '😬 the governemnts know numbers of peoples???' like....yeah?? #it's something that happens like every few years. you don't need to actually enter like. accurate info #aside from name/address (since that'll probably already be info they have anyway due to voting etc) #like. fro example you know how many people enter that their religion is 'jedi' ?? like they are not actually practicing that #anyway the last census was 2 years ago so the numbers wouldn't really be exact anyway

[phantomstatistician]

Fandom: A Certain Scientific Railgun

Sample Size: 433 stories

Source: AO3

#mikoto misaka #kuroko shirai #misaki shokuhou #touma kamijou #awaki musujime #kazari uiharu #ruiko saten #accelerator #index #a certain scientific railgun #fanfiction #ao3 #statistics #phantom statistician #mikoto x kuroko #kuroko x mikoto

[pensat-i-fet]

#but don't let reality stop people from making up who's the best and all that #marketing will always be more effective than statistics...when it's convenient to certain people #lies about how a team plays will also be effective #but in the end...some are Grizi and others flop in every big match and/or are compared to vegetables #y a mi la rúcula me gusta así que comparadlo con otra cosa #¿judías? #no me van sorry 🤷

[micamicster]

The good news: meeting with the stats guy went really well he was kind and clear and had a lot of helpful advice for my project!

The bad news: he did not simply do the statistical analysis for me and now i have to google things like ‘how to perform a linear regression not clickbait’

#the other good news: he (a grad student volunteering his time to help medical students analyze their data) did not point and laugh at me for #being soso stupid and bad at statistics. an outcome i was certain would occur. so that’s a relief <3

[daz4i]

being suicidal is kinda funny sometimes like I'll be having violent dangerous thoughts or make theoretical plans for a possible future attempt but the entire time I'm just holding my spiderman toothbrush in my mouth getting ready for bed looking perfectly normal. that's just what life is

#at a certain point of being suicidal you do try to prevent the future from getting worse. with little things like brushing your teeth #bc statistically you haven't died up until now and you probably won't die any time soon either. so might as well #it's hard tho. bc the main thought on my mind IS about how I'll die soon. if it were up to me at least #then again if it were up to me i would be dead for over a decade now lol #sigh. i know why my brain is extra mean tonight. I'm going to sleep soon it's okay. just wish i didn't wake up #kinda wanna take a bunch of pills to see what'll happen but i know from experience the answer is nothing 😐 or a headache lol #suicide // #ask to tag