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What are the common shit math cliches people use try to have a smart take

Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 02:44:00 2022 No.14365510 View Reply Original Report

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What kind of math/ logic should be used more often.
>Used for individual things and large samples. Functions or other things.

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 02:48:29 No.14365517 Report

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refer to thread with bad handwriting. That person is insufferable.

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 03:29:36 No.14365591 Report

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>>14365510
>The Asteroid is the equivalent of 17 elephants in a row.

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 03:35:40 No.14365600 Report

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>>14365510
>It’s increasing exponentially!
when it’s just increasing pretty fast

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 03:38:35 No.14365606 Report

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>>14365510
Anything that exaggerates numbers, like lying with statistics
Saying x% increase when they could have easily given the old and new values
In the news they will happily say some testing equipment is 99% accurate without discussing false positive/negative or prevalence in the tested population, nor general population

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 03:40:07 No.14365607 Report

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>>14365510
>should be used more often
Baye's rule

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 03:46:44 No.14365615 Report

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>>14365510
>It’s twice as small
to mean it’s half as large

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 05:08:02 No.14365734 Report

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>>14365510
Care to extrapolate?
Anything related to game theory
The entirety of statistics
Infinitesimals

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Anonymous Tue 05 Apr 2022 06:14:38 No.14365831 Report

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Not Math exactly, but people often conflate "Theory" with "Hypothesis" which usually grinds my gears.

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