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[lisatrix]

http://community.livejournal.com/useless_facts/765956.html

So phadguy posts a nifty statistical 'fact' in useless_facts.

Comments

[porcelain72]

Oh yeah, njyoder is sort of the male version of strange_doll. He'd use his last dying breath to get the final word in on something, and still manage to be a jackass about it.

[lisatrix]

I thought I recognized the name. Any really notable instances of wankery come to mind?

[porcelain72]

Hmm...lessee, I seem to recall him blasting my SO for posting in feminist communities, claiming that he was only doing it to get chicks.

[greygirl]

One could claim the same about him, if not for the fact that the chicks in the feminist communities almost universally wish he would die in a fire.

[queenanka]

Wouldn't he be right that a statistical assumption be just that an assumption. Also it just looked like he was trying to get teh OP to admit that there was a possibility that what he posted wasn't a fact. I didn't see him honestly getting too worked up about it until the replies were frozen.

[lisatrix]

He is right, yes, but I mean... the very first thing he said was "stop lying your ass off". He came into the thing with a seriously confrontational attitude.

[queenanka]

Well its also part of internetitis the whole nameless faceless deal. Not that it is right but it happens.

[kallell]

statistics and such may have actual facts that arent true

its like saying that if you ran an RNG for numbers 1-100
any given number would have a 1/100 chance of coming up, therfore if you ran it 100 times you would get each number 1-100 in a random order.

In truth while the statements are reasonable sound, we know from experience that random numbers will repeat before every number is used, and even if you ran the RNG 1000 times, statistics aside averages take over and there me a nimber (or perhaps more then one) that never comes up in those 1000 runs.

Its math contradicting math so to speak. Both may be accurate, but both arent true

[countessolivia]

he´s got something up his ass, I don´t know what but there is something there twirling and making him bitter.

[doohickey]

Ugh. It's "theoretical".

These are the types of people I can't stand when I'm wearing my Schrodinger's cat t-shirt. Inevitably, I'd have to explain the thought experiment, and they'd say something like "Well, if you kept it in the box for long enough, you'd be sure that it's dead, right?"

[fooltheworld]

OK, now I have to go google Schrodinger's cat.

[kallell]

so do i, i remeber hearing it, but cant recall what it is

[cicipsychobunny]

Huzzah for Schroedinger's Cat t-shirts! I almost always get people giving me shocked looks for talking about dead cats.

[glossolalia]

He's a professional dork. I expect nothing less from him.