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tarot reader: draws the tower me: thats bad isnt it tarot reader: draws the tower again me: uh oh tarot reader: draws boeing 767

synnthamonsugar

letsmakepoppunkgreatagain

boomstab-papa

kosmogrl

google search will this uneasy feeling in my stomach I've felt since I was 13 ever go away

ivan-fyodorovich-k

somethingusefulfromflorida

Have politicians and oligarchs always been this fucking pathetic, or is this new? It's hard to take evil people seriously when they act like this, and I'm 99% sure that's why they do it. It's performative, it gives them plausible deniability, "they're not evil, they're just stupid." They're underestimated and downplayed, just another distraction.

deanwasalwaysbi

This is the perfect moment for Vine to do the funniest thing possible

roryblank

you lookin at my hat, stranger?

princessmo

all video games should be dressup games. if you can't put your guy in a little outfit what's the point

transxfiles

antiques roadshow guests will really say the most chilling sentences on live television and not realize they're creating 3 sentence horror stories.

internet-sentences

jaoxn

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.