sunburnt skin

I am 1% human and 99% tired

Wow I don’t understand math at all

I think my brain just stopped working

100% is just another way of saying twice more likely. So 100% more basically means multiply the number you do have by 2.

Imagine how many woman are scared to have kids because of that statistic

This is why I took stats instead of calc. Because I don’t build engineer bridges in my everyday life but I sure do read studies that affect how I might live my life if I misinterpret them.

I’m terrible at numbers and math but I knew this and I really take it for granted. The average person definitely assumes, quite understandably, that “600% INCREASE!!!” must always mean a whole lot even if it literally only means that one of something is now six of something. Politicians probably take a shitload of advantage of this confusion.

just remember that increased BY and increased TO are very different things.

Oh god I didn’t even think about that whole other layer of confusion. Yeah if you’ve got 100 people and one of them is sick, that’s 1% of them who are sick, so if it “increased BY 100%” then that means now two people are sick. If it’s “increased TO 100%” then all 100 people are sick.

Reblogging again for that last addition.

...I need this track. NEED.

there’s something very weird on this website (and other social media platforms) where people think they can solve geopolitical problems by posting

the more notes this gets the more people seem to think that i’m suggesting people stay ignorant about the war in ukraine. what i’m actually suggesting is 1) following legitimate news sources and journalists will serve you much better than reading/spreading what are likely inaccurate tumblr posts 2) you can’t actually do anything on here to make this situation better 3) you aren’t expected to or obligated to “raise awareness”—not the least bc this isn’t something that can be fixed with awareness. trust me people are plenty aware already if they have even glanced at a newspaper in the last week and if they haven’t they really should not be getting their news on here

[id: a tweet by @/girltweeteds that says “i see your text. i acknowledge your text. i read your text. i answer in my head. your notification disappears. i go on with my day. i forget about your text.” end id]

2:13 AM: i remember your text and that it went unanswered. i decide it's too late to text you back but i'll definitely remember to do that tomorrow