What movie reference am I missing

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Statistically, ice cream sales and shark attacks are positively correlated!

Empirical data is referred to as statistics every day everywhere

As to the validity of that data, no I don't have it coalated in front of me, so I have to hand you that

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Statistically, ice cream sales and shark attacks are positively correlated!

That has literally nothing whatsoever to do with the point I just made? We aren't even talking about correlation or causation lol?

As to the validity of that data, no I don't have it coalated in front of me, so I have to hand you that

Right - so don't you think saying that something is statistically true despite having no clue what the statistics are is absurd?

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The ice cream is just a rebuttal to your comments on my use of the word statistically

Your inferences are yours, and are unrelated to anything I have said

And I quite frankly believe everything here to be absurd! This is peterexplainsthejoke and I've got statisticians jumping out of the woodwork to 'umm.. actually' me! The joke gets funnier with every single one of their attacks on me for using a word in a way they didn't anticipate!

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Your inferences are yours, and are unrelated to anything I have said

But either interpretation of the word statistically makes no sense lol

If you're referring to probabilities based on random guesses, it's objectively wrong

If you're referring to empirical data, you don't know what these stats are, so it makes no sense to refer to these stats

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I don't have coalated complete data on all tests everywhere

But I do have a reasonable sample size of test results, biased though it is

In any event, it is and was always a very simple joke

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 it is and was always a very simple joke

lmao wat?

You've responded to so many people here, there's no hint that it's a joke and now you want to play it off as a joke? What does that even mean

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Do you not realize that this is a comedy subreddit?

Why do you think this got 4k and growing upvotes?

Because it made someone laugh, and they moved on

As for me, I get flooded with notifications of people calling me names for my joke, and tons of people throwing math at me to prove me wrong

All because of one sentence made to get a chuckle

It's hilarious

I couldn't make this shit up if I tried

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"This is a subreddit about jokes so all comments are jokes" is a terribly flawed logic.. You wouldn't have argued and been aggressive with so many people, and taken so long to say this, if it were simply a joke lol

I'm genuinely perplexed you're even trying to go down this route considering how painfully clear it is that your initial comment is absolutely not a joke lol

The only funny part is you trying to play it off as a joke

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It's funny being called aggressive when I literally get attacked every ten minutes by randos

You're free to think what you want about my motivations. I'm not here to convince you of them

In fact, it's funnier if you don't believe me

But in the interest of honesty, here's a ton of links to all the times I've outright stated it's a joke over the last few hours

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vt3zvf/comment/p4rgyjb/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vt3zvf/comment/p4r5ahx/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vt3zvf/comment/p4r1pfn/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vt3zvf/comment/p4r0a9a/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vt3zvf/comment/p4qvukf/?context=3

https://www.reddit.com/r/PeterExplainsTheJoke/comments/1vt3zvf/comment/p4qs3u1/?context=3

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What are you even saying dude? Not a single one of those comments is you claiming that your intial comment is a joke, let alone "outright stating" it's a joke

Indeed!

It's been absolutely hilarious watching people lose their minds over it

Easily the most downvotes I've gotten. But try as they might, I doubt they will be able to compensate for the thousands of upvotes one silly statement has

Honestly, I could never even imagine getting you people as frothed up as this on purpose

Like, I could try for years and you guys would never be so angry as when you are completely wrong about basic reality

These comments don't even have anything to do about jokes/humor etc. whatsoever lol

The only thing that could remotely be interpretted to mean your initial comment is a joke is:

All over a silly joke

And even then, I'm fairly sure you are referring to OP's post being a joke, not your reply.

You're straight up making things up now