as usual people have an incredibly poor sense of how often outliers show up in large populations https://twitter.com/notwokieleaks/status/991793179119767553 …
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hypothesis: untrained human intuition cannot estimate the frequency distribution of human preferences in a group larger than the Dunbar number
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the number of people who think it's more likely than not that reptilians run the US government? more than ten times that numberhttps://twitter.com/masterobscurity/status/991805278667640837 …
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Every so often the realization creeps over me that if something were so odd as to appeal to only, say, 0.5% of the population of the U.S., that would be about 1.5 million people. More than the population of 11 states.
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Okay, but are those 11 of the crappy states? Or cool ones, like Minnesota?
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Well, I'm quite fond of Vermont.
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I nearly named Vermont as another example state!
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Vermont is a lovely state. And has no more than its fair share of serial killers.
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Which is exactly as comforting as one might expect.
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