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BrigadierSensible posted:I can guess that this represents population, but why clowns? What if it's how far in meters people from certain countries run screaming when they see clowns?
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BrigadierSensible posted:I can guess that this represents population, but why clowns? To find out who in the room has clourophoba for future prank purposes. Or their graph was made by their 4 year old.
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Jul 15, 2016 03:08
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Clown car.
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Jul 15, 2016 03:13
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Bobby Digital posted:Ah, so that's why we measured in kilotons. That was very culturally sensitive of us. They’re imperial tons. 
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Jul 15, 2016 03:14
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Platystemon posted:They’re imperial tons. Then Hirohito must have been doubly pleased.
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Platystemon posted:They’re imperial tons. Really? I googled to check and every source I found said it was in metric tons.
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Bobby Digital posted:Really? I googled to check and every source I found said it was in metric tons. At Los Alamos during the war, short tons were used for TNT equivalents. Here is an example from Los Alamos Primer (PDF), the transcript of a lecture given there by Robert Serber in 1943 (page three of that PDF): quote:The energy release in TNT is 4·10¹⁰ erg∕gram or 3.6·10¹⁶ erg∕ton The use of short tons is implicit. If these were metric tonnes, it would be precisely 4·10¹⁶ erg∕ton. Platystemon has a new favorite as of 05:34 on Jul 15, 2016 |
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Jul 15, 2016 05:31
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Bobby Digital posted:Really? I googled to check and every source I found said it was in metric tons. Metric uses "tonnes".
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Jul 15, 2016 05:47
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Let's not get into tonne arguments, here.
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Jul 15, 2016 08:03
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How many metric tons is a gross registry ton?
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Jul 15, 2016 11:41
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FrozenVent posted:How many metric tons is a gross registry ton? Your mom is a gross ton.
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Jul 15, 2016 11:51
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I don't get it
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Jul 15, 2016 14:59
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Stop ruining the tonne of the thread.
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Jul 15, 2016 15:50
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Heavy poo poo, this.
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Jul 16, 2016 06:20
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Apart from the annoying text formatting, I think those are pretty good.
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Jul 16, 2016 09:04
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Agreed. Would put them in a classroom
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Jul 16, 2016 14:16
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Those look like they're from a class assignment, honestly. I'm not expecting a middle schooler to know average salaries but it does seem like it's from an assignment to illustrate the different averaging techniques.
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Jul 16, 2016 14:40
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Or as a demonstration for, like, a journalism ethics lesson to show how weaselly statistic terms can be used to misrepresent facts.
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Jul 16, 2016 14:47
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Not sure if it's just me but this seems to be a poor presentation of correct information:
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Jul 17, 2016 15:30
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Positioning aside why whales? Ask anyone how long a blue whale is and they'll answer "uh, pretty long? I guess". Which completely misses the point of a size analogy. That's a big dick! It's as big as three Australian pygmy possums laid end to end!
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Jul 17, 2016 16:22
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The real problem with that is they forgot 1/2 of an Airbus A380.
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Jul 17, 2016 17:34
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Outrail posted:Positioning aside why whales? Ask anyone how long a blue whale is and they'll answer "uh, pretty long? I guess". Which completely misses the point of a size analogy. As opposed to air buses, because if you ask how long an air bus is they'll know to the nearest metre?
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Jul 17, 2016 17:43
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I think people have more of a concept how big a plane is than how big a whale is.
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Jul 17, 2016 17:54
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No football fields. 2/10
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Jul 17, 2016 17:58
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Outrail posted:Positioning aside why whales? Ask anyone how long a blue whale is and they'll answer "uh, pretty long? I guess". Which completely misses the point of a size analogy. Blue whales are widely known as not just big, but the biggest (known) animal to have ever lived. It's actually not the longest (some sauropods are longer if you count the tail) but that's still enough for folks to go "wow holy poo poo" even if it doesn't give them an exact idea of the size. US supercarriers get used the same way. Incidentally, the Nimitz class carrier is 1,092 feet (332.8 m) long. That's longer than whatever the hell is being represented in that graphic. And we have 10 of them. By the by, here's a life-size blue whale for you to scroll around on.
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Blue Footed Booby posted:Blue whales are widely known as not just big, but the biggest (known) animal to have ever lived. It's actually not the longest (some sauropods are longer if you count the tail) but that's still enough for folks to go "wow holy poo poo" even if it doesn't give them an exact idea of the size. That's kind of my point. Noone (virtually) knows how big a whale is, just that it's big. Probably "as big as a school bus?" is as accurate as anyone is going to get. So why not just use school buses, every dipshit in North America has a good idea how big a bus is.
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It's so long that you could put 5 empire state buildings next to each other in that space and still have room left over!
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Outrail posted:That's kind of my point. Noone (virtually) knows how big a whale is, just that it's big. Probably "as big as a school bus?" is as accurate as anyone is going to get. So why not just use school buses, every dipshit in North America has a good idea how big a bus is. I guess I wasn't clear. The point isn't to convey exactly how big it is; the point is to give something that sounds impressive so that people can go "wow." A really big thing that is also the biggest of its type is better for this purpose than an ordinary thing people can relate to because, again, the point isn't being repeatable. If this still doesn't make sense you're just going to have to accept that you're not the target audience for random factoid wow soundbytes. This isn't a put-down or anything. I've just mysteriously picked up the ability to think in "science person desperately trying to communicate with apathetic normies." Blue Footed Booby has a new favorite as of 21:45 on Jul 17, 2016 |
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Blue Footed Booby posted:I guess I wasn't clear. The point isn't to convey exactly how big it is; the point is to give something that sounds impressive so that people can go "wow." A really big thing that is also the biggest of its type is better for this purpose than an ordinary thing people can relate to because, again, the point isn't being repeatable. Yeah I get it, I think we're arguing about the same thing. This is why only the most backwards of countries use imperial units.
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Outrail posted:That's kind of my point. Noone (virtually) knows how big a whale is, just that it's big. Probably "as big as a school bus?" is as accurate as anyone is going to get. So why not just use school buses, every dipshit in North America has a good idea how big a bus is. I'm not from north america, I have no idea how big your school buses are. I get the impression from movies that they are shorter than buses in the city I live in, but thats about it. Whereas blue whales are famour for pretty much one thing; Being loving Big. If the infographic is trying ot establish that whatever its about is really big, then "Its a lot of blue whales big" seems like a decent way of getting the message across. Plus, and I feel this has been overlooked, if you arent sure how long a blue whale is then the infographic has you covered; They are about 100 feet long on average. Wait, holy poo poo, are your school buses seriously 30 meters long?
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SiKboy posted:Wait, holy poo poo, are your school buses seriously 30 meters long?
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For some reason that graph just makes me want to get lovely and play Spheres of Chaos
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Jul 22, 2016 22:46
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 The exact moment De Niro stopped caring.
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Outrail posted:That's a big dick! It's as big as three Australian pygmy possums laid end to end! 
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a kitten posted:
Who needed a graph to tell them that?
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Jul 23, 2016 17:44
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Tiggum posted:Who needed a graph to tell them that? Robert De Niro
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a kitten posted:
I would love to see an overlay of salary per film. I bet he's making a pile of loot for those poo poo movies.
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CharlieWhiskey posted:I would love to see an overlay of salary per film. I bet he's making a pile of loot for those poo poo movies. Uhm? No... this is the bad graph thread that information should be represented on another unlabeled x axis.
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