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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago

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fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 7 months ago
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    Technically theres always a bias of the most amusing answer so the “no” would be close to 5% at a minimum.

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      Sounds like the lizardman constant

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        That was an amazing read, thanks!

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        Oof I didn’t know that was a Scott Alexander thing

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          Why oof? O.o

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      Yep, no survey get 0.2% of any kind of response.

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        0.2% of surveys get some kind of 0.2% response, especially if the survey is about statistics.

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          that’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works!

          Percentile of a variable != level of that percentile.

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            Pffft, only 0.2% of people understand surveys anyway.

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      It’s also been shown that people often are bad a reporting accurately. So, your results may not be accurate just from that.

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