From b5905e9940076d947055ac086c1142cb5a27b120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luisa <103768169+luisa-li@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 13:51:19 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] more work on blog --- blog/blog.css | 4 ++++ blog/statistics_for_evil.html | 16 ++++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/blog/blog.css b/blog/blog.css index 3b73ea0..123a466 100644 --- a/blog/blog.css +++ b/blog/blog.css @@ -6,6 +6,10 @@ body { padding: 5vh; } +h3 { + color: var(--lightwhite) +} + .head { display: flex; flex-direction: column; diff --git a/blog/statistics_for_evil.html b/blog/statistics_for_evil.html index 8e9ecf9..a6644fe 100644 --- a/blog/statistics_for_evil.html +++ b/blog/statistics_for_evil.html @@ -30,11 +30,23 @@

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of course you didn't! someone on the internet made up that correlation.

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of course you didn't! someone on the internet made up that correlation.

actually! it is not even a correlation! mathematically you can draw a line through any two points, i could be plotting the number of birkenstock sales in the united states and the ocurrence of foot fungus per 1000 people, and those two dots would still make a line.

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the original statistic on meat consumption and life expectancy was actually part of a post influencing people to a carnivorous diet. apparently veganism is no longer the hip and healthy thing to do, because eating raw sticks of butter and consuming unpasteurized dairy is the trend now. i actually have too many opinions about this, but i won't babble.

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the original statistic on meat consumption and life expectancy was actually part of a post influencing people to a carnivorous diet. apparently veganism is no longer the hip and healthy thing to do, because eating raw sticks of butter and consuming unpasteurized dairy is the trend now. i actually have too many opinions about this, but i won't babble on.

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anyway! here's some facts i made up.

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the average american made $106,400 in 2022

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the average income per house hold in the united states in 2022 was $106,400, according to table A2 on income in the united states, made by the united states census bureau. this is correct but misleading - the fact that the average is 106,400 does not mean that the average joe is making 106,400.

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data distribution matters. especially when 1% of the population holds 30.4% of the country's wealth as of Q1 2024. here, a different measure of central tendency, the median, is much more appropriate, and that number is $74,580.

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of course, measures of dispersion would give additional insight, but if your attention span can only capture one number at a time, let it be the median.

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