50 Hilarious Science Memes That Prove That Science Can Be Funny, As Shared On This Instagram Page

Well that figures

This is called Survivorship Bias. It happens all the time in less obvious ways, and not always in this way with literal life and death. Another example is when investment managers are studied and supposedly half of them beat the market and half don't. Those studies don't account for the investment funds that closed before the end of the study period. When that is accounted for, it's more like 2% beat the market, 98% do not.

That figure would change if they had a Necromancer as an interviewer.

My brain was like "sure!! But did you adk those who lost?!?!". Felt smart for a second.... now I feel dumb! Can laugh about it though

Well, the stats have spoken, people! Who's up for a game?

I took a statistics class at university and the book we had to read was called How To Lie With Statistics

:D Great example

Truth: No, please, don't. It can kill you. It involves guns.

Still wouldn't do it.

The math works... but outlook still not so good.

um, but...

sure…

Seems legit

Statistically speaking, he's not wrong.

I love this because it shows how all statistics work. You get the answer you want by only showing the answers that prove your point. If all the stats on seatbelts were released, everyone would know they do not save lives. They can. They also kill and maim. I'm alive because I wasn't wearing.

It's a sad fact that you can play with statistics in such a way to create so many lies. I'm going to tell you this right now that most your commercials that use statistics are lies.

Wrong (incomplete) statistics, since you left out the life/death proportion rate, which is... ta-daaa, 50/50. And you can also throw in the number of times each one of them played the game and build a repetition/chance of survival graph. You know, when you oversimplify something, you can manipulate the facts the way you please...

I see what they did there...

the character in Germansipers pfp is french

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That is a blatant lie. There is no way they found 1000 people who have played Russian roulette. It should say "We interviewed one person who had played Russian roulette before. 100% of the interviewees survived the game". This logic is more often used in the negative, as in "we interviewed 1,000 sick people to see what made them sick, all of them had breathed air and eaten food".

It’s a pyramid scheme

Its missing the turtle and elephants

Was I the only one who typed it out myself because it looked cool...

I recently saw a video of someone asking random people in the street general knowledge questions. They all got them wrong, except the question "name the 3 Kardashian sisters, bonus points for the brother". Just sadness...

Clever girl

... or it could be "ownfl"!

Wikipedia is more reliable than many professors I’ve met.

That's some kind of BS. Should of gotten at least partial credit!

"small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence, and the concept of time" - damn, that's 100% correct.

I- um- well, you're not wrong

My brain still does not want to understand this scale.

Still fancy that cup of water, now? download-6...4be13.jpeg

As someone who works better under pressure, it's a super power!

SOOS!

Lol, " its funny because its true " ( just imagine Sheldon saing it )

thanks, i hate it

I like this one!

Ah yes, of course

I see Clarkson I upvote. Note: this will be controversial I know

I understand this meme. I'm something of a scientist myself!

oooh

#science

Which "she"?

Well, it all adds up

Cats won't feel the spiciness. Their tounges have no receptor for capcisin (the stuff that makes food hot). That being said, do not feed them with spicy foods. Their digestive systems are not built for it

Who does that too?

Notes, what's notes? I was far too lazy to write notes 😆

I am so bad at math that even my math teachers didn' t understand how this was possible

*laughs in nerd*

I like the word 'probably' there

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