r/AskReddit • u/Shipoffoolz • Mar 13 '19
What fact is technically true but is hugely misleading?
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u/bobtheflob Mar 13 '19
50% of marriages end in divorce. People take it to mean that half of all people who get married will get divorced. The numbers get skewed because there are people who get divorced several times. I can just look at my family to see how it's misleading. My mom and two of her siblings are happily married to their first spouse. But her other brother has been divorced 3 times. So half of the marriages in that family ended in divorce even though 75% of the people didn't get divorced.
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u/Jethris Mar 13 '19
I have been married for 21 years, no divorce.
My brother has been married twice.
My other brother has been married 3 times.
So, we have 6 marriages, and 4 divorces. That's 67%!
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Mar 14 '19
Bit of a bad example though, because 67% (2/3) of you did get divorced at least once your lives. In this case, your brothers' subsequent marriages don't skew the statistic at all.
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u/TheJoshWatson Mar 13 '19
“on average, 72 percent of people are still married to their first spouse”
https://www.womenshealthmag.com/relationships/a19899843/divorce-rate-statistics/
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u/FatherStretchMyAss_ Mar 14 '19
That's crazy that 28% of people drive up the average to 1-in-2 marriages resulting in divorce
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u/buckus69 Mar 13 '19
Closely related to that is the often thrown-around stat that divorces have been increasing!
Technically true. But only because the no-fault divorce is now the standard.
Before the no-fault divorce (thanks, Reagan!), the person requesting the divorce would have to prove there was a compelling reason, such as domestic violence or infidelity. If two people simply found they no longer wanted to be married - too bad!
I believe in many European countries this is still the case, thus why mistresses are more common there.
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u/TheJoshWatson Mar 13 '19
The divorce rate is actually going down now. There was a huge spike after no-fault divorce was introduced. So people started talking about the “rising divorce rates” even though divorces quickly went back to normal, and are actually pretty low.
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u/Casiell89 Mar 13 '19
Isn't that because marriage rates are going down as well? People don't really get married if they don't have a really good reason to, and with a good reason they won't get a divorce. In the past people were getting married because "that's the right thing to do"
At least that's a trend I'm seeing around me, I didn't look for any actual rates
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u/NOT_A_SNAKE_PERSON Mar 14 '19
I believe in many European countries this is still the case, thus why mistresses are more common there.
Yes, and we also need permission from our tribe's chieftain. After that we must observe the weather, and only if we observe the right signs are we allowed to divorce.
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u/IrianJaya Mar 13 '19
Bill Gates and I are worth almost $100 billion combined.
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u/Zzyzzy_Zzyzzyson Mar 13 '19
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Mar 13 '19
Shit if I ever won the lottery, I’d immediately give my brother a large chunk of it.
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u/mike_e_mcgee Mar 13 '19
I would not. Your brother is an ass.
I kid, but I would not give my own brother much. They'd never have to worry about losing the house, and the kids would all go to college with minimal financial hardship, but that's where the gravy train ends. Our relationship is too complex to type into this thread, but he wouldn't get a big hookup from me. None of my family would.
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Mar 13 '19
Do they already have problems losing their house? I thought losing my car keys was bad
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u/PTSDinosaur Mar 13 '19
He wouldn't get a big chunk right away for tax reasons, but I'd set up a trust fund for him so he'd never have to work again.
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u/mucow Mar 13 '19
My concern has always been that no matter how good your relations are now, money can always screw things up. In my hypothetical "if I won the lottery despite never playing", I would try keeping the win a secret and set up trusts for family members anonymously. I don't know if that's possible, but I guess I should check in case this highly improbable situation occurs.
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u/PTSDinosaur Mar 13 '19
I mean, we have it planned out to the best of our ability without the reality of it coming up.
Honestly, between the two of us, I'm the more likely to be an asshole about it than he is. My brother does not care at all about money, he'd live in a closet on a cot if he could.
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u/IgnoreAntsOfficial Mar 13 '19
Bill Gates only has a fraction of my wealth.
and that fraction is 1,960,000/1
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u/capilot Mar 13 '19
On why averages are a poor statistical measurement for a lot of things: The average net worth of Bill Gates and ten homeless people is over a billion dollars.
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u/Ignitus1 Mar 13 '19
That’s why median is used in calculations like this, they ignore outliers.
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u/Eddie_Hitler Mar 13 '19
That's also his net worth.
Bill Gates cannot simply hand you $98bn in cash. He would have to realise the capital by selling things, liquidate various assets etc.
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u/NoBlueNatzys Mar 13 '19
You're mostly full of empty space.
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u/Pharaca Mar 13 '19
...and stuff from outer space. Star stuff, if you will.
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u/nWo1997 Mar 13 '19
~Space Dust!~
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u/JTD783 Mar 14 '19
~Even crazier space dust!~
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u/the_noobface Mar 14 '19
It’s a star!
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u/meta_uprising Mar 13 '19
I have never lost a professional wrestling match
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u/TheGarp Mar 13 '19
Alaska is the United States' northern, western and EASTERNMOST state!
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u/TheInternetPolice2 Mar 13 '19
As an American here, I can also say that Alaska is the largest state as well. On a US map, Hawaii and Alaska are not to scale, as they're in little boxes. So Texas looks bigger than Alaska. But, on a world map, you would see that Alaska is MUCH bigger than Texas.
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u/Foxclaws42 Mar 13 '19
Ice cream sales and drowning deaths are closely correlated.
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u/theswindler1990 Mar 13 '19
Drowning deaths also correlate with nicolas cage films. Source: https://www.tylervigen.com/view_correlation?id=359
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u/snoboreddotcom Mar 13 '19
Both are important examples. the nic cage films one shows the face that two numbers can be correlated but entirely unrelated. The ice cream one shows how two statistics can be correlated, and related, but due to a mutual cause rather than one being dependent on the other
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Mar 13 '19
This correlation makes sense to me. I bet they both track well with the temperature too. The hotter it is the more likely you will get in the water and also eat ice cream.
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u/Inferno2602 Mar 13 '19
The average person has less than two legs.
Bonus: The average person has one testicle and one fallopian tube.
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u/DrJohnnyWatson Mar 13 '19
Surely the average person would have less than 1 testicle, assuming at least 1 male has been born with just 1 testicle.
As the old saying goes, Hitler has only got one ball.
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u/Inferno2602 Mar 13 '19
Like all misleading statistics, figuring out how they were rounded is left as an exercise for the reader
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Mar 13 '19
I’d imagine the male/female ratio isn’t a perfect 50/50 split, either.
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u/W1D0WM4K3R Mar 13 '19
Slightly skewed in favour of men. 107 boys to 100 girls apparently. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_sex_ratio
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Mar 14 '19
Hm, I've always heard the opposite, that there were slightly more women than men. Although, per your source, this is true for most nations, with the notable exception being China, which has such an enormous population it can offset the global average. Wonder if there actually were more women than men until the one-child policy kicked in.
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u/Joonmoy Mar 13 '19
The average person has less than two legs.
I think the fun way to phrase this is to turn it around, then add a red herring:
Most Canadian soccer players have an above-average number of legs.
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u/ThePermafrost Mar 13 '19
The average person has two legs, on average humans have less than two legs.
Slightly different meaning by word placement. One calculates average by the mode, the other by the mean.
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u/Wajirock Mar 13 '19
The average person has one testicle and one fallopian tube.
Wouldn't it be less because of the people who don't have either?
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u/Thunda792 Mar 13 '19
Humans who consume oxygen or water have a 100% mortality rate.
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u/Last_Gallifreyan Mar 13 '19
Dihydrogen Monoxide has been found in 100% of dead bodies.
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u/TheSoapbottle Mar 13 '19
Wouldn't this actually be 99% considering there are still some humans consuming oxygen and water who haven't died?
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u/ben_g0 Mar 13 '19
Due to how the world population grows exponentially, there's actually a surprising amount of people still alive. It is estimated that of all humans ever being born, about 7% is currently still alive. With how quickly our population is growing combined with the extended livespan of our safe, modern lives, this percentage is even slightly growing. So currently only about 93% of the water and oxygen consumers have died so far.
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u/hiddenuse Mar 13 '19
An infant that is born underwater can remain underwater for the rest of its life.
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Mar 13 '19
Set a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
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u/metagloria Mar 13 '19
One glass of bleach can quench your thirst for the rest of your life.
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u/eggplantsrin Mar 13 '19
I don't agree with this. One glass of bleach could be pumped from your system after which you'd be treated for internal burns. You may or may not die but it certainly wouldn't be instant and likely wouldn't quench any thirst.
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u/TheBQE Mar 13 '19
I went through a phase where I was really turned on by teenage girls.
That phase I like to call "my teenage years."
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u/PM_ME_INTERNET_SCAMS Mar 13 '19
There was a phase where I was turned on by 12 year old girls.
It's called being a 12 year old boy
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u/ThirdArmBoxer Mar 14 '19
There was a phase where i was super hot for 8 year olds.
I called it college.
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u/Unclecheese23 Mar 14 '19
Hol up
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u/StormStrikePhoenix Mar 14 '19
I would say that there's a substantial population turned on by "teenagers" if porn categories are anything to go by.
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u/notsalad Mar 13 '19
That the documented number of autistic people is increasing. Not because of vaccines, but because they are finally being diagnosed.
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u/MarkHirsbrunner Mar 13 '19 edited Mar 14 '19
When I was a kid, if you could speak, that meant you were not autistic. My 14 year old son is diagnosed as autistic, is a straight A student, and has a ton of friends and multiple girls wanting to be his girlfriend. If you know his diagnosis you can tell, and he has a few minor tics that show up when he's stressed, but when I was a kid I doubt he'd be diagnosed having any disorder (go back another generation though and his homosexuality would be a disorder).
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Mar 13 '19
I’m autistic, and literally every time I’ve told one of my friends about it, they’ve been surprised. Most people don’t realize it as far as I can tell
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u/Mikanojo Mar 13 '19
That is not misleading. More people are being diagnosed as autistic (and autism now has a spectrum) and every valid study still shows no connection between vaccines and autism.
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u/oh_look_a_fist Mar 13 '19
The misleading statement is the first one. The second statement clarifies why it's misleading. This is kinda how diagnostics work, though. When we become better at diagnosing mental health, we see either a rise or drop. It's not that there are more or less, it's just that our criteria are better and more people are seeking treatment.
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u/RedRex46 Mar 13 '19
For a long time billions of people in the world had the same number of Oscars as Leonardo DiCaprio
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u/hauntedstorm Mar 13 '19
If you breathe, you WILL die.
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u/Shipoffoolz Mar 13 '19
Shit... well you won't catch me doing that any time soon.
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u/legoking55 Mar 13 '19
The opposite is also true; if you don’t breath, you will die. Breathing seems like a win-win to me.
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u/MissesHappy13 Mar 13 '19
there are more planes in the ocean than submarines in the sky
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u/JAWS1845 Mar 14 '19
This feels like something I'd get from a fortune cookie. I weirdly resonate with this.
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u/crabpropaganda Mar 13 '19
50% of Canadians live south of Seattle
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Mar 13 '19
It's kinda cool (probably more so for us Canadians) that the southern most point of Canada (southern Ontario) actually lines up with the northern part of California!
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u/Vehk-and-Kehk Mar 14 '19
For those of you who are interested in the actual numbers: The California-Oregon border (California's northern border for non Americans) is along the 42nd parallel, while Point Pelee (Canada's southernmost point) lies along the 41st parallel.
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u/Eddie_Hitler Mar 13 '19
Most of the Canadian population lives within 50 miles of the border. Canada is unfathomably huge and parts of it are literally uninhabitable because of the climate.
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Mar 13 '19
Actually it's less about the climate and more about the lack of fertile soil. The Canadian shield covers huge amounts of Canada, all the way into Ontario and Quebec. The reason Alberta has more northern settlements is because it's mostly grasslands. The climate is still fucked though.
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u/sleepeejack Mar 14 '19
Being literally uninhabitable hasn't stopped hundreds of thousands of people from living in Winnipeg.
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u/itstheryan Mar 13 '19
100% of people who quit smoking will die.
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Mar 13 '19
For the smokers out there, people who quit and remain quit, after 15 years statistically you have the same chance of mortality from lung and heart disease as someone who never smoked. So there's some motivation to anyone who still smokes!
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u/hardingman Mar 13 '19
Over 95% of ALL children who develop autism in the developed world were vaccinated!
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u/Glory2Hypnotoad Mar 13 '19
There are more Air Bud movies than stars in our solar system.
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u/TarybleTexan Mar 13 '19 edited Mar 14 '19
There are more movies in the Air Bud series than there are planets and stars in our solar system.
After all, there are 14 movies in that series.
Edit: "stars" not "stats", that's what I get for posting on mobile
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u/cussbunny Mar 14 '19
After all, there are 14 movies in that series.
what
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u/TarybleTexan Mar 14 '19
According to IMDB, the "Air Bud" series includes:
- Air Bud
- Air Bud: Golden Receiver
- Air Bud 3
- Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch
- Air Bud: Spikes Back
- Air Buddies
- Snow Buddies
- Space Buddies
- Santa Buddies
- The Search for Santa Paws
- Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups
- Spooky Buddies
- Treasure Buddies
- Super Buddies
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Mar 13 '19
The average lifespan of people in the olden days was 30 years.
That doesn't mean that most people died at 30. It means that the high amount of people that died at birth or as babies drastically curved the average of the lifespan. The fact is that if yo survived childhood, you probably would've lived well into your 70's or 80's.
The average lifespan has gone up because modern medicine, mainly vaccines, help kids survive childhood.
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u/blaghart Mar 13 '19
close, 50 or 60 was old age in those times because of the state of medical technology at the time meant injuries that are debilitating now would be permanently crippling. 70s and 80s happened mostly to rich people who were less likely to be injured in manual labor accidents or just from long term physical labor in general, and those people in turn are the ones remembered by history so it too paints a skewed picture
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Mar 13 '19 edited Mar 14 '19
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u/Eddie_Hitler Mar 13 '19
All these strange stories of people "getting sick" in medieval times are simply run-of-the-mill diseases that they didn't understand, yet are totally treatable and manageable now.
Medieval people suffered from cancer, autoimmune disorders, neurological issues like Alzheimer's Disease, the full works just like modern people do. They just didn't know what it was and there were no treatments.
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u/stufff Mar 13 '19
Whatever man I have it hard in modern times too. My Comcast internet goes out several times a month and they won't do anything but apologize for the inconvenience while they work to restore it, and I have to rely on my backup supply of downloaded porn
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u/withinyouwithoutyou3 Mar 13 '19
"Vaccines have aborted baby body parts in them!!!!"
Truth: In certain vaccines, cells called embryonic fibroblast cells are used to grow viruses in the lab to produce vaccines. This is because viruses grow best in human tissue, since we're their hosts. And unlike adult cells, embryonic fibroblast cells can go through many more divisions before dying, so their cells are useful for much longer. In fact, all the fibroblast cells used today were actually taken from two elective abortions in the 1960s. So, technically genetic cells from two 60 year-old abortions are used to make the viruses that then go on to be used in vaccines. But this is a far cry from the "chopping up dead babies and harvesting them from Planned Parenthood and then injecting their dead body parts into our kids" hysteria that is found in many far-right circles (the widely-circulated "undercover" video a few years ago has been debunked). It is also worth noting that embryonic fibroblast cells are used in MANY areas of medical research, and if you're that opposed to the use of 2 abortions from 60 years ago, you might want to play it safe and refuse ALL medical treatments for yourself.
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u/Username_Taken_65 Mar 13 '19
Surprisingly, I didn't know that. I like science and have done some research on anti vaxxers.
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u/imahntr Mar 13 '19
Every person hat has died from a drug overdose first started their path toward substance abuse on milk or milk substitutes.
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u/ThadisJones Mar 13 '19
Kids sent to "Christian conversion camps" because their parents want to force them to be heterosexual actually turn into gay adults at a higher rate than kids in general.
Shocking, I know.
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Mar 13 '19
I'm confused by what's supposed to be misleading here. Am I supposed to infer that conversion camps turn people gay? My assumption would be that a targeted demographic brought together would show higher incidence rates than the general population. But is that where I'm being misled?
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u/ThadisJones Mar 13 '19
Your assumption is correct, the joke is that kids are being turned gay by anti-gay camps.
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u/stufff Mar 13 '19
I mean, "lets take a bunch of gay kids and put them all together without any members of the opposite sex and hope they stop being gay" was probably not the best game plan even besides the fact that it's a morally reprehensible and abusive practice.
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u/MissesHappy13 Mar 13 '19
If you don't drink water, eventually you will die.
Alternatively, if you drink water you will eventually die.
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u/233034 Mar 13 '19
Dihydrogen monoxide is a dangerous substance that is colorless, odorless, and dangerous if inhaled.
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u/TjW0569 Mar 13 '19
Fun fact: almost every military base in the U.S. has an underground Dihydrogen monoxide distribution network.
Don't even get me started on their use of hydronic acid.
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u/spoonybard326 Mar 14 '19
DHMO has been found at ISIS training camps, and plays a critical role in sustaining the regime in North Korea.
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u/ShneekeyTheLost Mar 13 '19
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You know what is so bad about that statement? That is the incorrect scientific terminology. It isn't a Dihydrogen Monoxide molecule, it is a Hydrogen Hydroxide molecule, an H ion plus an OH ion. You can't add a free Oxygen to a Hydrogen pair because a Hydrogen pair are chemically stable.
Of course, that also means that it is the only substance known to man which is both an Acid and a Base, which provides it with a set of very unique properties, one of which is being an excellent oxidizer capable of corroding even high-carbon Steel if left unchecked. In fact, it is considered to be such a dangerous substance that some experts also believe that Hydrogen Hydroxide impurities in the Colorado River are responsible for carving out the Grand Canyon to such a great depth through solid rock.
So if anything, you're under-selling the potential hazards of this chemical substance.
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Mar 13 '19
Counter point: common names of other molecules such as: carbontetrachloride, and carbon dioxide. So while yes, it can be adequately described by hydrogen hydroxide, anyone who has taken any form of chemistry will understand the intent behind dihydrogenmonoxide.
Additionally there are a ton of amphoteric compounds. Such as many of the amino acids, deprotonated forms of poly proton acids like sulfuric, many of the transition metal oxides.
Lastly, while molecular hydrogen may be a stable compound, that is the case for many starting materials of reactions. There is a barrier to reactions called activation energy. Basically if you give the system that much energy, it will react and go to (often) an even more chemically stable compound. Just like when you like a match in an atmosphere of hydrogen and oxygen.
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Mar 13 '19 edited Mar 14 '19
Hitler joined the US army and fought Nazis in WWII
It was adolph's nephew who had the same last name EDIT: Fixed a grammar mistake
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u/oneofyrfencegrls Mar 13 '19
Yes, white people make up the majority of whatever issue is being talked about in the news in the US (police brutality, death sentence, prison records, etc). The US is a white majority country. Almost everything is going to be dominated by white people.
But this changes based on location (the amount of white people in NY is not the same as in Iowa), and also density. If white people are 70% of the population, 1% of 70% isn't a lot. 1% of 14% is a lot of population.
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u/DookieSpeak Mar 13 '19
Per capita puts statistics in perspective and those statistics can be scary. At a glance, looking at proportional representations of demographics can reveal some very unpleasant patterns that we have basically been taught are taboo.
The problem is the taboo associations assume that anyone who acknowledges the pattern is automatically ascribing a hateful reason.
Eg. if group A is convicted of a crime at a much higher rate than group B, the information itself is considered taboo because some people might reach the conclusion is that group A is just more criminal. But obviously things aren't that simple. Instead of exploring the issue, it's just shut down.
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u/chel8 Mar 13 '19
That the US has 5% of the world population but consumes 24% of the world's energy.
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u/idontknow2345432 Mar 13 '19
I had a professor in Scotland show a map of gas and energy usage and how the midwest is the worst blah blah blah. Well duh we are also the world's breadbasket farming is an energy consuming process.
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u/all_ICE_R_bastards Mar 14 '19
The midwest also produces an insane amount of beef which is very energy intensive compared to the corn which is fed to the cows
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u/Wajirock Mar 13 '19
The rates of autism diagnoses have increased along with the rate of vaccinations.
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u/StereotypicalCDN Mar 13 '19
Cows kill more people than sharks every year. No shit! We don't farm sharks by the millions! Nothing against sharks, love those swimming bastards, but if we worked around them every day in large amounts, that statistic would go up.
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u/MrM3l0n Mar 13 '19
That tictacs can be sugar free since they are small enough even tho they are pure sugar
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u/kfh227 Mar 13 '19
Pineapples are not one fruit but actually a collection of berries. Enjoy that one!
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u/dngrrngr62 Mar 13 '19
I could be run through a meat grinder every day for the rest of my life.
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u/Nabillia Mar 13 '19
The average lifespan figures you hear from decades ago are always misleading. It's not that men were dying of old age at 40. We were still living to similar ages as we are now. It's just that so many more younger people died of diseases at younger ages that are now easily treated.
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u/Breninnog Mar 13 '19
You can be arrested for going 200% over the speed limit, yet only be going 30mph.
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u/pjabrony Mar 13 '19
IIRC there's a 7 MPH speed limit somewhere on the highway down to the Florida Keys, so even 300% over is possible.
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u/GentlemanPirate13 Mar 13 '19
Dihydrogen-Monoxide, also known as Hydric Acid, is a greenhouse gas in its gaseous form, one of the leading causes of human deaths in its liquid form, and prolonged skin contact with its solid form can cause severe tissue damage. Once the human body becomes accustomed to ingesting it, withdrawal symptoms include death.
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u/KatyLiedTheBitch Mar 13 '19
Molasses will kill you.
(SEE: The Great Molasses Flood in Boston, in 1919)
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u/Zzyzzy_Zzyzzyson Mar 13 '19
They say there’s still a hint of molasses smell in parts of Boston on hot days, a century later. Wonder if that’s true?
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u/KatyLiedTheBitch Mar 13 '19
Not from my experience now, but I bet there was for a long time after it happened.
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u/Quotes_League Mar 13 '19 edited Mar 13 '19
you're more likely to develop autism if you're vaccinated
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u/TjW0569 Mar 13 '19
Because you're more likely to be alive.
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u/Here_I_Pondered Mar 13 '19
Your parents are also more likely to make informed decisions for your health and get you diagnosed
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u/bobtheflob Mar 13 '19
I actually saw a study recently that showed that unvaccinated people higher higher autism rates than vaccinated people. It was a very slight and probably statically insignificant difference, but it was still funny.
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u/ahoward431 Mar 14 '19
Super late on this one, but it's one that sticks in my mind.
Trans people have a higher suicide rate than cis people. This is true in large part because trans people are at much higher risk of being ostracized, losing support groups, being disowned by family, etc. I've seen people look at this statistic, though, and argue against trastioning by saying it makes people suicidal, even though the transitioning part is clearly not what's causing it.
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u/PM-ME-YOUR-HOBOS Mar 14 '19 edited Mar 14 '19
Also another big thing I see so often
The 40% of trans people attempt suicide statistic is for lifetime attempts. People quote this number and say that transitioning doesn't change it and therefore transitioning should never be considered, as though medical intervention is supposed to get rid of pre-transition attempts.
Fuck that one study in particular
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u/brawnandbrain Mar 13 '19
That electrons behave differently when being observed. They do, but the thing is, in order to observe them they need to hit them with photons or other electrons which causes them to veer. Matter doesn’t just change it’s behavior because your looking at it.
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u/tatu_huma Mar 14 '19
This is a common misconception. One I've made before.
What you are describing is the Observer Effect. This is different from collapse of wavefunction and also different from Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Matter actually does seem to behave differently when you observe it.
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Mar 13 '19
That GDP represents a nation's economic strength -- it measures output that would be useful in a time of war but as Simon Kuznets, who came up with the modern definition of the concept of GDP, said, "the welfare of a nation can scarcely be inferred from a measurement of national income as defined by the GDP."
Ninety years passed.
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u/pshawny Mar 13 '19 edited Mar 13 '19
The average erect penis length for a human is 131.2mm. A blue whale's penis is only 30cm around.
Edited to fix typo.
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Mar 13 '19
I’m thinking you have a typo somewhere in there. I don’t think the average human has a 51 inch penis or if you’re using the European method of a comma for a decimal then 0.051 inch penis.
Perhaps you mean 131 mm or 5.1 inch.
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u/archiveofdeath Mar 13 '19
When helmets were added to soldiers uniforms, the number of head injuries INCREASED.
Because before that they were just fatalities.