|
learnincurve posted:Anyone who thinks the BBC is anything but biased towards the right, and puts on the guardian but misses off the telegraph is a Conservative without realising it. They put the Daily Mail as "skews slightly conservative".
|
#
¿
Nov 6, 2018 11:24
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:18 |
|
|
Paladinus posted:There is a cat on that chart, too. Cats are apparently the fifth-best kind of dog, according to their data.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 10, 2019 22:03
|
|
|
Date systems ranked from best to worst: yyyy-mm-dd dd-mm-yyyy days since beginning of 1900 Mayan calendar mm/dd/yyyy I will not be taking questions at this time
|
|
#
¿
May 28, 2019 23:20
|
|
|
Scotch egg, toad in the hole and tikka masala all deserve a much higher place on that list.  Also bacon sandwich is not god tier. Otherwise pretty spot on though
|
|
#
¿
Jun 12, 2019 20:32
|
|
|
A lot of it also formalised during the rationing in WW2, with very little access to spices beyond our handful of native herbs. There's this a heavy dependence on gravy for flavour. Like, nobody ever eats plain Yorkshire puddings.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2019 11:24
|
|
|
It's suet.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2019 13:52
|
|
|
Peanut Butler posted:why is white gravy so weird to brits? it's just a sausage/milk/flour roux, you folks got all those things. Is it the pepper? I'm guessing it's the pepper. British gravy is meat juices and stock, thickened with a little flour and seasoned to taste. They're completely different sauces given the same name. (ironically the opposite of your porridge/oatmeal confusion)
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2019 19:53
|
|
|
Peanut Butler posted:e: oh it's just not called gravy??? okay this is one of those things where you also have puzzles but some puzzles are called 'mind-delights' and are never called puzzles It's funny, I expected biscuits were going to come up and mention that what is biscuits to us is what you would call cookies, and some of our biscuits are cookies but only when studded with chocolate chips. Oh right, this is the charts/graphs thread. 
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2019 20:19
|
|
|
TheMaskedUgly posted:I'm convinced the war broadly broke the millennia of tradition of passing down culinary skills to your kids; and once the knowledge was lost, we just collectively said "gently caress it, generally" and did the culinary equivalent of that jainist thing where they just lie down and die I'm willing to blame baby boomers not being interested in anything they didn't grow up with.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 14, 2019 12:42
|
|
|
Surely all swords and guns are gayer than centre, as they are primarily tools for men to penetrate other men.
|
|
#
¿
Jul 8, 2019 09:32
|
|
|
Memento posted:how on earth Think of it in terms of higher education driving people more to the left. The ones that come out of university still Republican would have been much more committed going in.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 18, 2019 12:35
|
|
|
VictualSquid posted:Looks like there are some people in this questionnaire who refuse the American English meaning of liberal. Honestly I think this is genuine linguistic drift - as socialism becomes less of a dirty word and seen as the Actual Left then liberalism's position becomes more centrist. It's not even really changed, it's just not an extreme any more. But not everyone has caught up with that.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 22, 2020 13:42
|
|
|
Pie charts are best for when you're more concerned with categories as fractions of the whole than their size relative to each other. It's easier to visualise "this segment is about a third", "this is about a fifth" etc with a pie chart than bars.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2020 17:10
|
|
|
zedprime posted:Yes,sure, we all went to middle school and learned pie charts show portions of a whole. Let's say I'm a teacher and evaluating my students' pass rate in an exam. I compare those that passed first time, those that passed on a resit, and those that failed both. I obviously don't care how many times the fails fit into the passes, I just want a fraction of the class that passed. As well as seeing the fraction that passed first time, I can also combine two categories and see what fraction overall passed at all purely visually without any additional calculation. Assume also that I have to present this information to management so can't assume they'll figure out anything from pure numbers or words with more than three syllables.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2020 17:59
|
|
|
zedprime posted:If our visual design aspires to no more, you can hypnotize them with some red or green circles, up, down, or sideways arrows. Or maybe some clip art of a duck giving a thumbs up or thumbs down. Honestly, this is pretty much what data visualisation is for. In any serious analysis, a simple grid of numbers is going to be much more useful than a graph, since if you want to think about what a graph is saying for more than a couple of seconds you're going to be looking at the numbers already and a straightforward grid will save your eyes dancing across the page to find them on their relevant bar or segment or whatever. Plenty of times you'll see both together, though this is more likely in a report (where you can choose for yourself what you want a quick skim vs deeper analysis) rather than a presentation. What graphs are good for is to give a quick "good or bad" to an audience without much patience for analysis, while giving them assurance that the analysis exists somewhere because you can see the vague shape of the numbers on this graph.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 5, 2020 18:56
|
|
|
Yeah this is definitely a "we just got millions of people to look at the word "Pepsi" and our new logo twenty times in a row" sort of deal.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 3, 2020 18:20
|
|
|
Capt.Whorebags posted:Who decides that a particular city’s morgue is “best in the world”? Of all the people they've serviced, not one has come back to complain!
|
|
#
¿
Apr 7, 2020 11:26
|
|
|
There's a British economy one too 
|
|
#
¿
Apr 9, 2020 20:39
|
|
|
Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I can't believe that Boomers actually had the capacity to increase their viewing of broadcast television that significantly. Most Boomers I know come home, they turn the TV on, and it stays on. Like hours and hours of CNN or MSNBC or Fox depending on their preference. And this is pre-plague! That's just it, now they aren't coming home from anywhere, so it's on all the time.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 16, 2020 22:24
|
|
|
Whybird posted:I think they're using 'problematic' in the literary analysis sense, to mean something that could fit into one of several categories depending on interpretation. No, the tweet thread says that the "Problematic" category is songs that were once in the other categories but didn't age well. Honestly I don't think it should be a category in itself, it's not a literary device the way the other categories are.
|
|
#
¿
May 21, 2020 08:58
|
|
|
Yeah the dessert spoon is just the typical spoon you normally eat with. It's not got a lot of use in cooking because there's not a lot of need when you've already got teaspoons and tablespoons.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 2, 2020 18:32
|
|
|
DarkHorse posted:Man it's gonna take days to make my character in the next Elder Scrolls game, I hope they let you save your progress I like the Horseshoe Theory bar. Definitely missing Myers-Briggs type though.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 7, 2020 12:09
|
|
|
hooman posted:I also like how Jakarta is extremely not there. It's on the bottom-right?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 16, 2020 15:28
|
|
|
Leviathan Song posted:How are government-made diseases a conspiracy theory? They were an official government program for both the US and Soviets into the 70s. I think the conspiracy theory is less that they have developed any and more that a given wild disease is an escaped bioweapon.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 5, 2020 17:27
|
|
|
ultrafilter posted:Anyone who thinks that a donut and a straw have a different number of holes is very confused. Well, are they? After all, how many holes are there on a human? Because topologically a human is homeomorphic to a donut. If you take a straw, and cut a hole in the side of it, how many holes does it have now? Two? Three? Does the same apply to, say, a rubber band? Holes are a surprisingly tricky concept to nail down.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 28, 2020 20:39
|
|
|
SerialKilldeer posted:Where’s Alaska and Hawaii? Between Canada and Mexico. If you had to correctly place the labels on that map it'd be an amazing geography quiz.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 25, 2020 17:11
|
|
|
I think the graph does itself a disservice sorting the characters alphabetically. You could tidy it up quite a bit just by grouping all the kids together, all the adults together, and I think some of those are characters from the next generation that are probably largely shipped with each other too. It'd cut down a lot on the little strands crossing across the middle and being hard to follow. Cool chart though. Amused that "Reader" is shipped exclusively with Draco Malfoy.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 28, 2020 03:43
|
|
|
SerialKilldeer posted:
And looking at the small text, this was the best design in a competition.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 22, 2021 23:02
|
|
|
IYKK posted:Vowel sounds are hard for people (english speakers) who just do a formless grunt (schwa) 60 % of the time. Describing vowel sounds in English is hard because English has like twenty vowels described with five letters.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 2, 2021 19:08
|
|
|
Splicer posted:Pineapple For that matter "pineapple" used to mean "pine cone", from that same origin. We called the ananas a pineapple because it looks a bit like one, so that name stuck in English when basically every other European language agrees it's an ananas.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 3, 2021 18:31
|
|
|
The animations do a good job of showing how much the projections are actually distorting the landmasses. Honestly it might be a better question to ask why it's animating the Xkcd comic rather than proper maps.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 13, 2021 16:14
|
|
|
GWBBQ posted:
So the gold is made of silver and the bronze is made of brass?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 8, 2021 12:59
|
|
|
Splicer posted:The rest of the world existing in some form of *diana superposition That's Shake-It-All-Aboutdiana.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 24, 2021 12:16
|
|
|
Of course the people that like licking boot are into feet
|
|
#
¿
Oct 30, 2021 23:26
|
|
|
What gets me is that De Beers themselves couldn't conjure up a study saying even half of people find diamonds special or romantic.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 4, 2022 23:02
|
|
|
Is it me or are the figures there total nonsense? Reading that blurb, it looks like the numbers they're displaying aren't the humidity as a percentage, they're the percentage of the day that city spent at its peak humidity. While that humidity itself is only vaguely defined. Did they pick out the city that reached the highest humidity or just the one that stayed at its maximum the longest?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 6, 2022 15:58
|
|
|
I like that "Toxic" exclusively covers Beryllium and the secret unspoken element next to Beryllium.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 26, 2022 16:39
|
|
|
I'd guess the question wasn't any more thorough than "could you beat a rat in a fight?" so that 30% is going to include people thinking "I probably couldn't get it before it got away" or "I couldn't bring myself to hurt a rat".
|
|
#
¿
Feb 9, 2022 10:42
|
|
|
Captain Hygiene posted:Is the market value traveling through an alternate dimension before coming back to our reality at the end there? Look if you can't understand a basic concept like fiscal branchination I'm just not going to be able to explain this to you
|
|
#
¿
May 10, 2022 23:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 25, 2024 11:18 |
|
|
Gann Jerrod posted:The categories on this chart make zero sense, what does high or low “ability” mean? Given the context I assume it means in the sense of disability?
|
|
#
¿
May 13, 2022 23:44
|
|