Sorry, I think you need to brush up on statistics. The relevant measurement here would be the variance (Variation? Variability? Whatever the term is officially called) in the relevant statistic, not the size of the statistic itself. Using the variance and previous average of the deaths per capita statistic, you can calculate the likelihood of the current deaths per capita having this value compared to the past values. If that likelihood is sufficiently low (for most scientific fields, 5% or less), the result is declared significant, since it’s different than what we would expect it to be if nothing had changed, and we can say that with a high (>95%) confidence. To learn more about this “predict the chance of the result being within normal bounds and then go “whoa that’s weird” when it’s not” method, look up “null hypothesis”, or even better “statistical significance”.

To give a practical example: The number or deaths from car accidents is fairly low per capita, but since we have a very large amount of data available, it has a low variance and we can predict and calculate the ratio very accurately. If you look up a graph of car deaths per capita over time, each year will only have a ratio of like 0.001%, but the variance between years will not be very high, because we have so much data that the little bits of randomness all even out. We can then look at, for example, car deaths per capita for streets with crosswalks vs without crosswalks, and even though they’ll both be a fraction of a percent, because they’re both measured so accurately we can make confident assessments of that data.

Finally got some medical stuff sorted out. Also been working on my weight. I finished replayingg the original Kingdom Hearts on PS2 purely for my own enjoyment, which was fun, but I think that was last month.

Even if you were right and this were relevant, this would not be a statistical anomaly, it would be a methodology failure

Maybe you should try posting more often then ;)

Medic mains when their “useless” ubersaw crits for the 12th time in a row

“It’s not a feature, it’s a bug”

Your carrier pigeon is doing some serious work today

I get it. The world needs some hope again, it all feels so bleak right now.

You’re acting like that’s the only policy point that exists. There are meaningful differences in other areas. I don’t have enough non-propagandized information to argue for sure that there are differences in the middle east war department, but the parties certainly aren’t the same on all war-related matters (see Ukraine/Russia as an example). Their rhetoric is different for the middle east but again I can’t speak for their actions. And obviously their non-war policies are drastically different.

Today’s Mission: That

Sometimes you just have to listen to the meme songs

Rockefeller Street Nightcore Remix

Oh, it’s not partisan? That’s… fine, yeah

Any church that does this should not get to be tax-free under the religious exemptions, because they’re also a political organization

TIL the scope of a conversation can never include anything that wasn’t in the original post. I can’t imagine how boring your conversations must be irl.

Womp womp

SHED

I encourage you to keep studying and researching. Politics isn’t a football match where teams compete against each others and “left” and “right” are two buzzwords.

No offense but I think OP has a better grasp of this than you do

Thanks for sharing! I feel like this is representative of a small but important political group recently.

Well, surely the timeline where those things are already happening is worse?

I refuse to upvote any post woth the word “slammed” in the title