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spider-hands-mannos-deactivated

Heres the thing you gotta understand about statistics.

“Increases your chances by 80%” does not mean “there is now an 80% chance”.

If your chances were previously 10%, your chances are now 18%, not 90%.

if your chances were roughly 1%, they’re now just slightly less than 2%.

thats how that works.

hopeful-weirdo

Wow I don’t understand math at all

freinhardt56

‘if you have a baby after 35, the chance of deformities goes up by 100%’ is a line I hear alot.

It goes up from .5% to 1%

fandomlockedfan

I think my brain just stopped working

authorgirl1111

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

that-catholic-shinobi

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

what-even-is-thiss

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

bogleech

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

hexmaniacmareen

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

bogleech

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

silly-jellyghoty

Reblogging again for that last addition.

tamarrud

I don't even have the words to describe what it feels like to have to share things like this with gruesome details and horrifying descriptions of the genocide of our people as if to prove something to the world.

The daily footage that come out after israeli massacres are apparently important to document these warcrimes yet I know those murdered with their limbs scattered would not have wanted the whole world to see them like that, especially when they have spent the last 70 days trying to prove their humanity to a depraved world that saw them as nothing more than props to advance whatever fucking agenda everyone has going for them.

Have you not seen enough? Have you not heard enough? Literally what else do you want from us?

imatiya

Why don't you know anything about what's happening in Sudan? 🍉

A simplistic comparison of news coverage conditions in Khartoum 🇸🇩 versus Gaza 🇵🇸

testosteronetwunk

sayruq

CONT the delivery of essential items into Gaza.

sayruq

stil-lindigo

For all my Australian followers!!!

El-Rahman is an organisation of volunteers currently helping to re-settle Palestinian refugees who recently arrived in Naarm/Melbourne. If you’d like to tangibly help improve Palestinian lives right now, they take monetary donations and have multiple drop off sites for supplies.

If you follow their Instagram, they will regularly update with what supplies are urgently needed, which range from furniture, to clothes, to sanitary pads.

Can't emphasise enough how important it is for people coming out of a warzone that their needs are taken care of. We should all strive to give a semblance of normalcy to these families who are traumatised and still going through immense suffering.

sayruq

[Disaproves only because it risks dragging the US into a regional war]

tamarrud

Thinking about what journalist Momen Alsharafi said, after having lost 21 members of his family, that he is so worried about what will happen after the war.

"The question that haunts me is what should I do then? After the war, after the work pressure ends, in my free time, what should I do? What should I work on? How do I fill my free time? It's going to be long. No brothers, no sisters, no father or mother, not even the children I used to play with, my nieces and nephews."

This is going to be the reality of tens of thousands of people in Gaza who had lost everyone. Who will they go to for comfort? Who will be there to help them through? Who will they visit on holidays?

Israeli crimes aren't just what's happening at this moment, their impact is for a lifetime. Fuck israel.

i’ve hit the post semester depression and anxiety

didn’t end with all of the grades i wanted but trying to remember that i can always do better next semester

#academic validation #studyblr #studyspo #study motivation #burnout #study inspo #exhaustion

palipunk-deactivated20260328

Dr Refaat AlAreer was just murdered by israel (12/7/23)

His last tweet:

nativenews

lucidicer

i'm seeing people losing hope for palestine i'm begging you seriously please don't. the death toll is high but there are still people alive, there are still journalists risking everything to make sure the world sees what is happening. please continue protesting if you have the option to, keep demanding for a ceasefire and keep talking about palestinians both alive and dead. you have to keep going until the very end or else you really did fail them.

bundibird

Reminder that before all this, the population of Gaza was approximately 2,300,000. The current death toll is around 15,500 - possibly as many as 20,000. That's horrific, yes. But that means that there are still at least 2,280,000 gazans alive and kicking. There are 2.28 million people who would benefit from a permanent ceasefire; for an end to Israeli hostility; for increased aid and reliable access to food and water. There are still 2.28 million people that Israel has not managed to kill.

So keep making noise. Do whatever you can to help those 2.28 million living people, and to remember and honour the 15,000-20,000 lives that have been taken. Giving up on Gaza helps no one but Israel.

nativenews

starlightshadowsworld

To this day people will cry over the knowledge and works destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down.

And yet no tears are shed as Palestinian archives and libraries are bombed.

Saint Porphyrius Church, built in 1150 and the 3rd oldest church in the world has been bombed.

It's not an accident.

Israel aren't simply killing Palestinians, they are trying to erase that there ever were Palestinians in the first place.

Destroying their livelihoods, trying to to destroy their culture and history and pretend this land was never there's.

It's easy to deny someone's existence when there's no record of them.

Which is why it's so important to look at the atrocities and bear witness to what's happening.

But to also recognise that Palestine is more than it's suffering.

There is a living breathing culture, of art, history, literacy which all come from the Palestinians.

Traditions they've carried for centuries.

So while we mourn the dead, we shall fight for the living. Fight for the preservation of their crafts, amplify their voices as they speak on their culture.

Palestinian history and culture is alive. And no matter how much the world wants to erase that, they cannot and will not.