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BonHair posted:Isn't there an Australian economy version of that optimism too? 
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There's a British economy one too 
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Tenebrais posted:There's a British economy one too The "blood-from-a-stone" curve
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I’m sure that will finally improve now that we’ve decided to demolish our one remaining successful business sector
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Where can I get a job as one of these economic forecasters? I can draw a line that goes up, too!
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Golden Dragon posted:Where can I get a job as one of these economic forecasters? I can draw a line that goes up, too! i think the pipeline is: born rich -> ivy league -> think tank the first part is the hard part
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Apr 9, 2020 22:03
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We should just randomly distribute all babies, throughout the whole world. You give up a baby, you get a baby, and that's the only way to have a kid.
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Can I please opt out
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:We should just randomly distribute all babies, throughout the whole world.  Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:You give up a baby, you get a baby, and that's the only way to have a kid. 
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here's one of the few "consistently wrong pessimistic predictions" examples
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last year i think, someone collated the predictions from the danish ministry of finance, whatever they use to back up their policies. this goes back decades, so both left/right govts (tho center obvs) 60% of their predictions were wrong, equally distributed over like a 40 year period in other words, we would be better off to do the opposite of whatever their model says
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hey now, cut them some slack, they're eviscerating those chickens as fast as they can
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Tree Goat posted:here's one of the few "consistently wrong pessimistic predictions" examples Why would you predict installed PV would go down  Am I misunderstanding this graph or something?! 
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Apr 10, 2020 04:10
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You are heavily into Freedom Gas and Freedom Oils
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taqueso posted:You are heavily into Freedom Gas and Freedom Oils no mix no mx
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DarkHorse posted:Why would you predict installed PV would go down Its added capacity per year, not total installed
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DarkHorse posted:Why would you predict installed PV would go down There were reasons to be pessimistic about how solar PV would grow from maybe 2005 to 2008.  That said, even without the 2008 correction everyone knew that China was increasing solar-grade silicon production at an insane rate, now that there was an industry demand, and that the price would plummet as soon as that came online.
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From the Daily Mail. Apparently 25841 < 25676, 29570 = 29790 and 33324 < 32890. I suspect this is just incompetence/laziness.
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flatluigi posted:i've always really wondered the demographics of people who go and rate stuff on imdb. is it like, integrated into something people use to watch tv on or do they really have roving gangs of dedicated raters that judge every tv episode they ever watch imdb reviewers skew heavily towards "reactionary white male american nerdo" https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-if-online-movie-ratings-werent-based-almost-entirely-on-what-men-think/
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jjack229 posted:I'm not sure if it is better or worse that they don't try to extrapolate Intel's future performance Seems like that flattened the curve all right vvv mobby_6kl has a new favorite as of 18:35 on Apr 10, 2020 |
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Top: The "testing is going up and looking great!" graph showing cumulative tests performed. Bottom: The "testing is basically unchanged" graph showing daily tests performed (that they don't show at the press conference).  
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somebody digitized "struggle for five years in four," a multi-lingual book of isotype visualizations of the success of the soviet five year plan
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Stoatbringer posted:From the Daily Mail. For anyone not familiar, the Daily Mail is basically Fox News. I feel like these companies just have prefab graphs that already have the rough shape they want to display and then they slap the numbers over them whether or not it actually matches the graph.
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vyelkin posted:Top: The "testing is going up and looking great!" graph showing cumulative tests performed. This is why everyone should learn the basics of calculus
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btw, what actually was the deadliest disaster during Obama years? e. Wikipedia has bunch of tornadoes killing 350 people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Super_Outbreak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_disasters_in_the_United_States_by_death_toll Kennel has a new favorite as of 23:56 on Apr 11, 2020 |
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"anonymised location data of mobile phones that were active at a single Fort Lauderdale beach during spring break 2020"
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Memento posted:"anonymised location data of mobile phones that were active at a single Fort Lauderdale beach during spring break 2020"  @ the people who went directly from a Florida beach to Banff.
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Hungry Computer posted:
This person would confuse me.
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Albino Squirrel posted:and took the northern route through Kapuskasing. Dry lips, I guess.
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Quick fix for this chart: add a y-axis labeled “Republican outrage at the President”. Then it works.
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Memento posted:"anonymised location data of mobile phones that were active at a single Fort Lauderdale beach during spring break 2020" I'm a bit surprised this method of data collection worked in Canada and Mexico along with the US.
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Count Roland posted:I'm a bit surprised this method of data collection worked in Canada and Mexico along with the US. we all live in your lovely panopticon
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 "The colored bands represent the direction the rodent most frequently chooses to move in. The jird (left) is a quadruped rodent and tends to move forward predictably, so its band is thin and concentrated towards the front and back. The jerboas (center and right) are bipedal and have evolved a predator evasion tactic that involves popcorning wildly around in any direction, alternating randomly between running, skipping, and leaping. Presumably this tactic makes it harder for hawks and other predators to predict their speed and trajectory. Jerboas and jirds are found in the same desert locations with scant resources, but jerboas’ unique locomotion allows them to forage for food and evade predation in open environments with little cover that would be too dangerous for a quadrupedal jird"
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Winklebottom posted:
popcorning wildly around in any direction This is great.
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  Probably more amusing without context but it's from this paper: https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1742-9994-10-80 It doesn't say anything about popcorning sadly.
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Platystemon posted:
Figured I'd follow up on this one: 
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:Figured I'd follow up on this one: hhnng, those error bars
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Uncertainty lowers as time passes, and sooner or later deaths per day will reach 0. If only because everyone is either dead or cured.
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It’s like a line made in Adobe Illustrator. There’s a fixed point where y equals zero on the fifth of May and the curve takes whatever shape it needs to to reach that.
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