Not just over/under estimating, but people intentionally ignoring instructions, answering absurdly for the lulz, or just misunderstanding and inverting their answers (percent not).

Not a very robust study design.

A great ideal so long as you’re the one in charge of deciding what propaganda is.

Starts after a 25 second delay

https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/going+a+bit+far

They are orthogonal to the potato axis.

Labelmaker?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_paradox

It’s actually irritating to me that the sun is bombarding us with ionizing radiation

Yeah, it’s called a sunburn!

Forwards from (liberal) Grandma.

Graphing negative values of r?

I always like to say it takes a gun from “definitely causing hearing damage” to “probably not causing hearing damage… Right away”

Today’s septic tank full of dead babies is brought to you by RAID: SHADOW LEGENDS!

It’s an old story. The age range determination was like 2014, the big headline for genetic testing was done in like 2018.

Your DNA sequence is generally pretty stable, but other characteristics do. Epigenetics is the field. Another example is methylation, which is basically like your cell putting a post-it note that says “don’t use this” on a particular region. By looking at a bunch of different methylation sites an age can be estimated.

But in this case, it appears that the article is just mixing up “genetic testing was performed” and “the ages were determined” (separate statements from previous articles.)

Lemmy needs to distinguish itself with character-level voting. Somebody made a great post but unironically used an interrobang? Hit 'em right in the analytics.

If you’re going to motte and Bailey, try not to do it in one conversation. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

So a bunch of mental gymnastics later, we have two groups: those who consent to authority, and those who comply with authority because of the threat or application of violence.

“allow” as in permit or not address… Obviously no structure is 100% successful at eliminating opposition, but without the monopoly of violence any government becomes usurped by another body that is willing to exert force.

What “anarchistic structure” has derived authority exclusively through consent, and done so without allowing other violent power structures to form?

Show me literally one ever.

Any government relies on a monopoly of violence, because some minority will not consent to rule. Lenient systems will settle towards “don’t kill, cook, and eat your neighbors,” some will settle towards total subjugation of their constituents.

If not prevented with violence, new violent power structures will form spontaneously.

I spent about five minutes telling and subsequently explaining this joke to my wife. 10/10.