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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 96 points 2 months ago (5 children)
[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

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

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I didn’t.

[–] kogasa@programming.dev 8 points 2 months 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 2 months ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 2 months ago
[–] resting_parrot@sh.itjust.works 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago

Yep, that was a typo. Whoops

[–] Midnitte@beehaw.org 15 points 2 months 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 2 months 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

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

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

[–] doodimus@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months 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 2 months ago

phacking p-hacking