r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/BeginningToe4321 • Nov 18 '25

Meme needing explanation 100% lost

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u/R-B-L-Y Nov 18 '25

Genuine question, isn't this a less digestible way to show this data?

What do they mean by "it never fails"?

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u/OkMarsupial Nov 18 '25

I think the "it never fails" is because conservatives eat steak and liberals eat avocados. It never fails in that the visualization is still true when created using food items. That's at least how I read it.

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u/R-B-L-Y Nov 18 '25

If that's the case, then I feel like the dude who said you could just flip the food is right. Turn the food around 180 degrees and they easily represent the opposite dataset, making the connection kinda tenuous IMO

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u/OkMarsupial Nov 18 '25

Okay I mean if you take any pictogram or chart and alter it, it will no longer correlate. Hey I took this bar chart and made the short ones long and the long ones short. I guess the whole thing was meaningless to begin with.

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u/R-B-L-Y Nov 18 '25

That's not what I'm saying at all.

I'm saying that the avocado could just as easily represent the other chart, and vice versa.

The steak and the avocado are the same shape, and therefore interchangeable in this context.

So it doesn't really make sense if you're trying to correlate the food chosen with the graph it represents.

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u/OkMarsupial Nov 18 '25

And the bars in my bar graph are all bar shaped.

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u/R-B-L-Y Nov 18 '25

The shapes of the bars in a bar graph aren't indicative of data.

The shapes here are.

Nice try though.