confusedbyinterface:prokopetz: I think people often underestimate the potential educational value…

confusedbyinterface:

prokopetz:

I think people often underestimate the potential educational value of senseless memes. For example, thanks to Spiders Georg, literally every teenager on Tumblr has a reasonable grasp of what a statistical outlier is and the sorts of problems that outliers can introduce into a naïve

analysis. There are grown adults who don’t get that – I deal with them on a daily basis.

“Memes have educational value” actually statistical error. Average meme teaches 0 facts. Spiders Georg is an outlier adn should not be counted

a They Deserve Each Other shipping scale where on one end of the axis you have the “no one else is…

mylittleredgirl:

a They Deserve Each Other shipping scale where on one end of the axis you have the “no one else is good enough for them” ships, and on the other end you have the ships that need to be together monogamously forever as a quarantine measure. whatever the fuck is wrong with both of them must be contained for the greater good.