SamanthaSays

On mermaids and two-legged dreamgirls She/Her/Ella

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I don't think we should plan, you know, Christmas. It's a ways away. One day at a time.

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“When you lose a person, a whole universe goes along with them.”

— Lang Leav, The Universe of Us, from “A Whole Universe”

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

Arief Rachmad

[angeleyes333x]

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[ur-daily-inspiration]

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[godshideouscreation]

[daddyfuckedme]

“It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”

— E. Lockhart (via perfectfeelings)

[cowgirlrising]

thinking abt that one quote that’s like “you are a language i am no longer fluent in but still remember how to read” like how soul crushing is that… what the hell

[drops-of-universe]

It is what it is *throws up*

[butterflypeaflowertea]

how to stop being depressed how to get rid of depression fast how to not be depressed anymore how to become undepressed how to end depressive episode and/or disorder

[ashstfu]

edward hopper / jenny slate

[disgustinggf]

[queer-as-city-folk]

Women want one thing and it's quite obvious, A large affordable interconnected North American Rail Network

[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.

[thepersonalquotes]