That would be weird, since the graph is about percentages and not absolute numbers. But it would also be weird if there is a ‘hidden’ answer which comes down to ‘i dont know’ or ‘i dont want to answer’.

Totally agree, didn’t mean to apply i’m against it but it just felt random. Thought maybe they were inspired by the donalds merchandise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You’ll pay tarrifs for foreign parts but you can easily offset those because of the increasing demand

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t Mexico to sell mind Mexico selling chocolate but why are they thinking this is part of their job as government??

Someone posted a link to Wikipedia in the comments, came across their names:

Richard Corsi, an environmental engineer and the incoming Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Davis

Jim Rosenthal, the CEO of filter manufacturer Tex-Air Filters

Also interesting, the estimated percentage of Democrats is bigger than the estimated percentage of Republicans while the true percentage is the other way around.

the proportion who have at least a high school degree: estimate 65% vs. true 89%

the proportion who have an advanced degree: estimate 37% vs. true 12%

So basically what they guess is ±⅓ has no high school diploma and another ±⅓ has an advanced degree, while in reality ±¹/₁₀ doesn’t have a high school diploma and ±¹/₁₀ has an advanced degree.

Meaning while in reality 77% does have a high school degree but not an advanced degree, the estimate is that only 28% does.

*perceiving

They should have provided a crash course in percentages before letting people do the questionable maybe.

YouGov would happily take your bet I guess:

The samples were weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the 2018 American Community Survey, conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau, as well as 2016 and 2020 Presidential votes (or non-votes).

They really should have started selling ⅕ lb burgers to make up for their losses

Thought it would be interesting to compare with EU, they published an article in 2023 (https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?oldid=630784) with the following data. This graph uses a number per 1 million inhabitants so divide by 10 to compare it.

Had to shoot it sadly.

For a good reason, right? Right?

I think they added the mystery as clickbait, the articles states a few times they must have come from Europe somehow and then conclude with this: “Researchers use genetic studies in hopes of unraveling the mystery, contributing to a deeper understanding of their history and genetic lineage. Each study adds pieces to a historical puzzle that has fascinated experts for decades.”

I can’t imagine experts really being fascinated by this ‘mystery’.

If it were all purely based on this map, all states in grey and brown could join canada and still be a country with a single (ok very long and hard to defend) border to the remaining US states.

I’m saving this for when the civil war is about to break out and I need a rough estimate of where the front lines will be.

Most people are inclined to shoo flies away from food, and the thought of maggots in your bins is enough to make anyone’s stomach turn.

But a handful of city councils have embraced maggots - more formally known as fly larvae - and their taste for rotting food.

In Vilnius, capital of the Baltic state of Lithuania, fly larvae have officially been given the job of processing the 2,700 tonnes of food waste the city’s 607,000 residents put out for collection each year, alongside that of the six neighbouring councils.

[…]

The current alternative for sending food waste to landfill is anaerobic digestion (AD), a breakdown process which creates biogas.

However, Mr Kotch says current AD plants aren’t enough to cope with the anticipated influx of household food waste.

“Globally, over 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year. We believe up to 40% of that could be upcycled using insect waste management. And not only does it avoid disposal costs and methane emissions, but it also produces valuable protein and organic fertiliser,” says Mr Kotch.

I believe they actually did see improvements, they just weren’t sustained

It sounds sketchy, but the text show she herself asks about it and for me that answer doesn’t come across as manipulative or him trying to profit off of her. It would be more worrying if he’d answer something like ‘o that car? You could let me use it’ or ‘I can sell that for you’. I think it’s wrong to assume all old people are vulnerable confused and sick, and also wrong to assume a sex workers has less moral values because of the way they choose to make a living. I think the way they communicate show that a) she has a sound mind and b) he treats her honestly like a friend and not as a target or victim.

Have you also read she lives in Canada while the claimants live in Australia and waited four years to voice their concerns? That says a lot too I believe.

What’s so fucked about them?