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Data speaks for itself (lemm.ee)
submitted 8 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 54 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

May I add this classic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 40 minutes ago* (last edited 39 minutes 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours 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)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was... not the best

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour 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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

I didn’t.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

Marlboro

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

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