Averages

Median and mode are 0. Mean is at 2.

A great way to teach averages.

My favourite way to teach how averages aren't always the perfect metric is:

Most people have higher than the average number of arms.
- My favorite is averaging testicles and including both sexes.
- "Yeah, mutants"
I know of these operations and have used them

But man, this really does highlight the diffs

You know, if you do a curve fit on that data, you'll see that US Presidents have become more criminal over time.
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Where is Joe Biden hiding all those bodies?
- According to all the right-wingers...Joe Biden has masterminded the murder and coverups of thousands of murder while simultaneously being the most incompetent senile sitting president in history...while Hunter Biden has all the details documented on his laptop...
- In the basement of a certain pizza place in DC.
  
  No one would ever think to check it twice.
- Checks out.
  
  Biden would be tied for second and third highest offender in that curve.
  
  Mighty sus...

tbf accepting a pardon is an admission of guilt, so I feel like Nixon should at least have a little bit of a bar there.

He was sadly never charged.
- If you weren't charged, but make a legally binding admission of guilt, have you committed a felony?
  
  I feel like this is like, something they teach in some extra credit course at law school lmao

Why take a screenshot? Why not link to the Mastodon post and let it inline render. Or does Lemmy not do inline rendering of links from Mastodon like Firefish does?

That’s a big miss / needed feature if so. Last thing we need is more taking screenshots and reposting across the internet. Fediverse is perfectly positioned to do better than that.

https://mas.to/@carnage4life/110893856222574805
- looks like this in Connect, missing its title

I guess Obama was indicted for the tan suit and dijon mustard incidents

Terrorist fist jab?!?
- I forgot all about that 🤭

Felonies Georg is adn outlier and should not have been counted

The point is that the loser has so many charges that the average across 46 presidents, 45 of whom have zero, is now 2.

That probably also says something about the lack of accountability for US presidents because there's definitely a nonzero number of other presidents who have committed felonies.
- fyi the comment you're replying to is a reference to Spiders Georg
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~~Covfefe?

But seriously you've had a stroke get that shit checked out.~~

Edit: TIL about a tumblr meme

Edit 2: and that Idk how to cross stuff out on Lemmy
- it's a reference to spiders georg
- Its a meme

Stop the timeline, please. I want to get off.

We're riding this baby into the ground. Dicks out and bottoms up boys and girls.
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MAGAts can't read graphs.

MAGAts can't read

Adjusted for accuracy

Remember this when our hyper-capitalist politicians and CEOs crow about what a "wealthy nation" we are despite this:

https://www.vox.com/policy/2023/3/8/23618237/homelessness-tent-encampments-housing-affordable

And this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-24/two-in-three-can-t-cover-400-emergency-in-us-suze-orman-survey

We look wealthy statistically because of this: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/18/the-wealthiest-10percent-of-americans-own-a-record-89percent-of-all-us-stocks.html

We're just a gold plated cesspool of greed, exploitation, and greed worship.

Mostly valid criticism, but the poorest American is still one of the richest people in the world despite our kneecapping of the housing market and insufficient social safety nets.

Also has literally nothing to do with capitalism, since this isn't a thing inherent to all capitalist countries.
- American is still one of the richest people in the world despite our kneecapping of the housing market and insufficient social safety nets.
  
  Okay, but what does that mean when the average American has a notably lower quality of life than competing poorer nations? Because that sounds like typical "starving kids in Africa have it worse, stop complaining" thought-terminating cliches that serve to end a discussion rather than find possible solutions.

Trump is the rule not the exception. US presidents are slave owners, genociders and war criminals since it's inception

Exactly. If the justice system were apolitical, the average would be a lot higher and the variance a lot lower. Just the last two presidents before Trump alone are responsible for so many crimes against humanity. I know Chomsky went through every recent president and explained how they all could have been impeached.

I wonder what the average would be if they were charged with the crimes they actually did order done?