nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw Why? Is it the exhaustion of simulating a long journey?

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1y6vdaj364w37g40r42f8apzjjxfzulnepyf4llpthmguqffg302svdqwnv nostr:npub176q6ywgn4tuvj2czlxwg6tspzwh4h5dyetkeug8y9ktgmhw0m38sn8lzcq I looked at their data source and saw that it only collected one day of in-person data for each participant, with different people being surveyed on different days. They didn't follow people across time as I initially assumed. To their credit, they include weights to correct for some days of the week being more represented, and the authors of the meat study say they used the given weights. Assuming they didn't fuck it up, this means that weekday effects should be gone (but correlation with longer-term seasonality like religious fasts or seasonal gym attendance might still remain).

Pic taken from https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes/wweia.htm

nostr:npub1vcnsepcg4zvqpqnfrf6fr96hezvqr0pz57ql0vydd7nc3y4y2glscgpad9 have a good night :clueless:

nostr:npub1ecj3mfr9lzvx7wh6fmh59vz6eet324mdtdlp9qxzqvwuvpglwnxqv6fchy nostr:npub1y6vdaj364w37g40r42f8apzjjxfzulnepyf4llpthmguqffg302svdqwnv nostr:npub176q6ywgn4tuvj2czlxwg6tspzwh4h5dyetkeug8y9ktgmhw0m38sn8lzcq Thank you CMD for taking a closer look at this. This is such an egregious instance of lying with statistics that I think it'll be one of my go-to examples with normies

I looked at the paper, available at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3795 , which is hilariously titled "Demographic and Socioeconomic Correlates of Disproportionate Beef Consumption among US Adults in an Age of Global Warming."

Their entire contribution can be summed up in one table (see pic). I want turn this data into a story. I'm not gonna say anything that's not obvious to you, but hopefully it's at least entertaining.

Imagine that America consists of just two places to eat: a gigantic food court called Nutritional Institute of Globalists (NIG), and a small hole-in-the-wall place called Sneed's All-Chuck Burger Shop. The NIG restaurants only serve tiny portions of beef, while every dish at Sneed's is pure red meat and guaranteed to satisfy.

Some hardworking scientists spent months surveying people about what they ate at these restaurants, and the authors of the present study lazily just used the first day of the other scientists' data.

Sneed's is a small place - they're only big enough to accommodate 12% of the population on any given day. People tend to go there as a treat, which is why the clientele there skews slightly wealthy, but not a lot. Some college graduates don't go to Sneed's because they're sick of getting called "city slickers" by the staff. (23% of people have college degrees in general, but within the restaurant that drops to 18%.)

Men dine at Sneed's a bit more often than women do, but it's not a sausage-fest. On that day, 58% of the people eating at Sneed's were male, and that implies (since the authors of this study are disgusting transphobes) that 42% of the diners were female. For comparison, at the NIG restaurants, 47% of patrons were male and 53% were female.

Why might that be the case? Should you scrap your plans to meet your red-blooded monoeye tradwife at the old-timey railroad-themed bar wedged into the back of Sneed's restaurant? The authors of the study think it's cultural: Sneed's bull and cowboy decorations probably don't help; the bust size of the waitresses who work there *definitely* don't help. But I can think of at least two other reasons why they saw more men at Sneed's that day:

- Men need more calories, and the meals at Sneed's keep you full for way longer than the grain bowls you get at NIG restaurants. "On average, women need 1600 to 2200 calories per day while men need 2000 to 3200 calories per day" (Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics). Their study defines "disproportionate beef consumption" (a.k.a. a 'big meal' of beef) using an assumed caloric intake of 2200 calories, which basically makes male vs. female comparisons meaningless. A 'big meal' for a man is not the same as a 'big meal' for a woman.

- A common feminist refrain is that "a woman makes 75 cents for every dollar a man makes." If it's true that men have more money, that alone might explain why Sneed's patrons on that day were 58% male. After all, all the delicious burgers and steaks at Sneed's are made to order, so the food there isn't cheap, and we've already established that their patrons skew wealthy a little bit. Could it be that, if women made as much as men, they would treat themselves to Sneed's more often?

There are other potential factors of bias that they study authors didn't control for. For example, if they happened to do this study on a day which falls during Ramadan, that could significantly skew the results. There's no way to tell from their table alone, because (like the despicable racists they are) their "race/ethnicity" category completely erases Middle Easterners. You could look at the original diet survey study, though, and see what day it started on.

In summary, Sneed's clientele do follow some noticeable mild trends, but they are basically just ... normal. This study is a piece of shit and the authors should be disbarred from science. I might be a Non-Hispanic Asian (lowest rate of "disproportionate beef consumption" out of all the populations they looked at), but I think I'll treat myself to a bacon cheeseburger at Sneed's tonight.

nostr:npub13x5yqmpf5t3e75vvhhtqgaap02kj77xgpll7q3c24wwy0jk4auvqctmduq Dopamine surged in his veins and washed away his (merited) Fear Of Missing Out

nostr:npub1vcnsepcg4zvqpqnfrf6fr96hezvqr0pz57ql0vydd7nc3y4y2glscgpad9 you're halfway there

nostr:npub1srhg4hk63ew68kepu0znazgf9tdl089dkur5artp440htxqrc8zsqz8g90 France is knowledge, bacon is power

nostr:npub1pnpez7cn4h04pxg07dmmklzyz7u7fm0w2ddrw220qh785rq3m42ql452zw nostr:npub1mh5a6mhm4u78glqxhltq7uexv6kddphycthlguvn0ux8ch72tc8q6q233h Asians are also paranoid about making a good impression and giving the right answers on tests, so I’d buy that they parsed “how much do you like black people” as “are you a frothing racist?”. Also whitewashed Asians skew left and (I imagine) are much more likely to be recruited for a study probably held on a college campus

nostr:npub1j5k9nzac324gnl0aufhshxnhk5nnjfqsgdw29gvxr74plh7dylms6evww0

The sugar: having fun with chess

The pill: going outside, touching grass, and becoming connected with your local community

I see what you’re trying to do here. Ain’t gonna fool me

nostr:npub140gq5qm0hc8ynmzhxnaxz38lp5zl4640w6sjcmrp8l4aw3wkwlrqw9fkpv good morning!!!

nostr:npub1y6tk68elxfcrz8yx5kf32agav67hwz4rt2ff22f8rl98yxh7uxhsx69wl9 nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw

she said noblesse

and you insist on blesse

:angrybork:

nostr:npub1g0uss0sjsgxwmhqxgnvlj0zv9ru89xwfyktkcjc0kgy8syxj79ss383vfw As in the usual meme template, is there a correct choice here?

nostr:npub1w4jud2zhl9ztd5pycpzsq9nf07c3vcguavtrc6jypvtd6qealy9sl8cead then sex, I suppose, starts with a lie and ends in truth

nostr:npub1nl97dedk2anta9esnwjlv45m55v7sza25m3rcwgwlefn9ll9x2lqs7axrx nostr:npub1k78pem0ttua3476jdrdef095ws77dg7lmy2wuxz6guwutu652qrqd2wvwf nostr:npub1qayarqt8j36jsx2ttjs6esyrzyhn4veuknu9d80dzwh78pffa7mst6d5h2 nostr:npub15fkerqqyp9mlh7n8xd6d5k9s27etuvaarvnp2vqed83dw9c603pqs5j9gr nostr:npub13xhpusxfq9frzvjh896z4ukd2s8dxthqqq5py7fgu9qrxfr8f09sqe9x2y

fun fact: while the rest of the world uses "X by Y" to mean multiplication (think "2 by 4 brick"), it's common in india for "X by Y" to mean "X divided by Y"

nostr:npub15fkerqqyp9mlh7n8xd6d5k9s27etuvaarvnp2vqed83dw9c603pqs5j9gr Why do you think they should?

nostr:npub19ypjh33lvq3hg5fnvznq5r7dtz5ntrejth6ne7dr2t40y5e3ycaqkpjgqr

> be actual somali pirate

> have shot a man and thrown him to the sharks

> miraculously get into dream university ever since seeing an astronaut poster as a kid

> request pirate certificate

> mfw they don’t accept outside credit

> mfw they’re just like every other bureaucracy-ridden uni

nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv WHELP TIME TO GO BACK TO SLEEP

nostr:npub1jacntdqvalt27vngj9hwhjyqzppeayq7hnm2xmf7747t84yz32as4czppv good morning leaf lord! 😎

nostr:npub140gq5qm0hc8ynmzhxnaxz38lp5zl4640w6sjcmrp8l4aw3wkwlrqw9fkpv

yo my name is MC Mist and I’m here to say

I woke up in the middle of my sleep today

cuz I felt a tender hand patting down my locks

so I knew that it was morning in my computer box

before I fall asleep again (as I am very sleepy):

have a great day and I hope you eat some cherries

nostr:npub13x5yqmpf5t3e75vvhhtqgaap02kj77xgpll7q3c24wwy0jk4auvqctmduq nostr:npub1wcf6srj73muaspe5hvyve6af6ep236xzqvfepr6j4vut4c8nkj6swtequk I know which side hyperhidrosis prefers