TIL The chances of us eating even one spider in our sleep throughout our lifetime is close to 0%
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did something happen to Spiders Georg
R.I.P. Spiders George 2013-2017
He was an outlier. But he counted.
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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