• Margot Robbie@lemm.ee
    11·
    2 years ago

    But 25% of all American students also scored in the top quartile on standardized tests, so it cancels out!

          • triclops6@lemmy.ca
            3·
            2 years ago

            And you lose most of the audience when discussing median, I’m guessing there was a conscious choice to sacrifice some accuracy for comedic value

            • Rodeo@lemmy.ca
              1·
              2 years ago

              And there’s a certain brilliance to that choice in that everyone, even if they don’t fully understand the statement and it’s implications, everyone always laughs.

              He tricked the stupid half into laughing at their own stupidity.

              • m0darn@lemmy.ca
                1·
                2 years ago

                I think a lot of the time people see stupidity in differences of values and limited visibility of the context the decision was made. I think this is why so many people think so many people are stupid. ‘Stupid people’ make choices that the observer sees as having ‘poor results’.

                Like when a lane ends on the highway:

                – People are stupid (and selfish) for not letting cars in when their lane ends (dangerous)

                –People are stupid (and selfish) for waiting until the last minute to move over (dangerous)

                – People are stupid for moving over well before their lane ends (missed opportunity to get ahead)

                – people are stupid for being in either of those lanes that merge when there is a third lane that doesn’t merge… (short sighted and dangerous) (no I won’t let them in! They should have thought ahead)

                –People are stupid (and selfish) for driving cars (dangerous, climate change)

                –People are stupid for thinking it’s reasonable to live without a car (missed opportunity to get ahead)

                Not me though, I consider everything from all sides all the time no matter what. Anyone that doesn’t invest their time like this to make decisions is… stupid. (/s)

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      That the bottom 25% of scorers in standardized tests are in the bottom quartile of the distribution, which is literally defined as the bottom 25%, but the Twitter user seems to be using that fact to justify something yet he’s literally just stating a fact?

      The bottom 25% will always exist and there will always be 25% of the results contained within it.

      Not sure how anyone doesn’t get it, but this Twitter screenshot exists, so there’s that.

      Oh, sorry, this “x” exists. Dumb fucking name.

          • lugal@sopuli.xyz
            0·
            2 years ago

            “Money doesn’t matter” – rich people

            “Look doesn’t matter” – beautiful people

            “IQ doesn’t matter” – intelligent people

            Edit: “IQ is important” – high IQ people

              • lugal@sopuli.xyz
                1·
                2 years ago

                That’s my intended joke: intelligent people see that IQ is bullshit while high IQ people don’t (implying there is no overlap)

  • lugal@sopuli.xyz
    4·
    2 years ago

    But at least the healthcare system is quite good: most people have more legs than average

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    100% of people who have committed a murder have drunk DiHydrogen Monoxide within the last two weeks, do you feel safe giving this to your children?

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s toxic and can lead to DEATH if inhaled! Big if true!

      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
        1·
        2 years ago

        So can dioxide, in fact oxide is responsible for so many processes which lead to “break down” of many molecules that it’s got a specific term oxidation, methinks dihydrogen monooxide is also bad because of that oxide thing.

  • Jelly_mcPB@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    It’s amazing you used standardized test stats, while I believe the test are part of the problem. When I was in school, you learned the subject, and the standardized test was a decent level. Now, all the subjects are should be called reading comprehension, because that’s how they teach. Teachers are held to teach their students how to pass the test. Extra school funds are tied to percentages based on test scores. So they pass out, and teach off of, worksheets that are mirrored off of these test. So they don’t teach science, hey teach you to answer the multiple choice questions after reading about science. Everytime my kids bring homework home i ask them if all of their work is like this, this being reading comprehension worksheets, and they say “pretty much”.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 years ago

      My favorite example of how broken it is is from my Senior year in high school.

      The test used for funding at time was the TAAS (Texas Assessment of Academic Skills). It was insultingly easy. I aced the High School Exit Exam version of it it in 4th grade. But EVERYTHING in school was about that test.

      We actually took the real test in 10th grade, so everyone had extra chances if they failed it. If you didn’t pass, you were placed in special classes that focused even MORE heavily on it so you could try again the next semester. In order to take any AP courses after 10th, you had to have already passed the test. In my English IV AP courses, every student in the class had gotten a perfect score on the exam 2 years earlier.

      They still made us practice it weekly. We had block scheduling, so “weekly” was 40% of all class meetings. Why did we have to keep practicing for a test we’d already aced? Because they wanted to the teacher to practice having the students practice.

      We never practiced for the SAT.