What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?
Dihydrogen Monoxide, commonly used in laundry detergent and other cleaning supplies, is also present in Subway sandwiches
They even put it into the water supply.
Evil!!
Everyone who has died has ingested dihydrogen monoxide.
FACT: 100% of people that consume Dihydrogen Monoxide die.
Wrong, a mortality of 94.5% has been shown not even close to 100%.
Please show me the data showing the data on pre-1900s populations proving that 100% of them consumed dihydrogen monoxide. You can’t do it.
One could say that people who haven’t died yet don’t have a cause of death yet so they can’t be counted.
Maybe we can agree on “100% of people who died consumed dihydrogen monoxide beforehand”.
Except for the ones that didn’t.
It can even be found in unborn babies!
There is a greater than 5% chance that your death will be someone’s fault.
What about the other 5% though?!
Non-preventable deaths are about 95%.
If you believe in God, it’s a 100% chance
You can’t drink too much water.
By definition, too much of anything is bad. That’s why it’s too much, rather than a lot.
So… Not a true fact? The prompt was for true facts that are misleading out of context.
What you cited is just a common misconception, right?
Yep. My bad. Didn’t quite understand the question at first read. 🤭
In places where more storks live, you also have more babies.
After the Corona lockdowns there was an increase in infections with the common cold. Researches tried to explain how this is connected to the immune system and a lot of people now assume you have to “train” your immune system with exposure to pathogens. Or that your immune system falls out of training (like a muscle) if you stop exposing it to pathogens regularly. A potentially dangerous misunderstanding.
People often draw false conclusions from reduced information about a fact. For example: Babies who are kept in one position for hours each day over weeks or months show developmental delay. For some reason this information got shortened so much that a lot of people (in Germany at least) now assume baby seats are hurting babies backs.
Each year, Dihydrogen Monoxide is a known causative component in many thousands of deaths and is a major contributor to millions upon millions of dollars in damage to property and the environment. Some of the known perils of Dihydrogen Monoxide are:
Death due to accidental inhalation of DHMO, even in small quantities.
Prolonged exposure to solid DHMO causes severe tissue damage.
Excessive ingestion produces a number of unpleasant though not typically life-threatening side-effects.
DHMO is a major component of acid rain.
Gaseous DHMO can cause severe burns.
Contributes to soil erosion.
Leads to corrosion and oxidation of many metals.
Contamination of electrical systems often causes short-circuits.
Exposure decreases effectiveness of automobile brakes.
Found in biopsies of pre-cancerous tumors and lesions.
Given to vicious dogs involved in recent deadly attacks.
Often associated with killer cyclones in the U.S. Midwest and elsewhere, and in hurricanes including deadly storms in Florida, New Orleans and other areas of the southeastern U.S.
Thermal variations in DHMO are a suspected contributor to the El Nino weather effect.
Everyone warns about DHMO, nobody knows about the dangers of hydric acid.
And even fewer people know about hydrogen hydroxide!
Or the fact that restaurants put poisons like Sodium and Chlorine in our foods.
Switching from a 5mpg truck to a 10mpg truck does more for the environment than switching from 40mpg car to a 55mpg car.
And this is why l/100km is a better unit
How is that misleading, isn’t it true?
Environmental damage from emissions doesn’t care about relative efficiency, 15 free miles is objectively more than 5 free miles.
It you travel 50 miles at 5mpg, you use 10g of fuel At 10mpg you use 5g…a saving of 5g
40mpg uses 1.25g 55mpg uses 0.91g a saving of 0.34g much less of a saving.
Yeah but if you’re already driving the more efficient vehicles to begin with…
but if we are trying to save the world getting the lowest mpg vehicles off of the road first will have a stronger effect
if you already drive a 30mpg car and you are ready to upgrade then definitely look for better efficiency but I think we should have incentives in place to get cars that operate at for instance 16 mpg (my first car for instance, 1996 Chevy blazer, now deceased) replaced by even 10 year old models which are much more efficient
…you have made a smart choice, and can focus on reducing your other emissions!
but it’s not like a person in a 50mpg car is likely to drive 5 times as much per year as the person in a 10mpg truck. over consistent distances, improving the shitty mileage vehicle will save a lot more gas.
swapping a 5mpg truck for a 10mpg truck will save 10 gallons per hundred miles, while switching a 40mpg car for a 55mpg car will only save 0.68 gallons per hundred miles. even going from 5mpg to 6mpg would save more than that.
The ask was
What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?
This is why the rest of the world uses l/100km (liters per 100 kilometers), the comparison is linear and thus comparable between different vehicles in a simple manner.
- 5mpg = 20g/100mi
- 10mpg = 10g/100mi
- 40mpg = 2.5g/100mi
- 55mpg = 1.82g/100mi
The difference between 10 and 20g is easy to see as a lot bigger than the difference between 2.5 to 1.82g. 15 is a much bigger number than 5, but that 15 is relative to the initial mpg rating
In fact going from 5mpg to 10mpg is better than going from 10mpg to 100mpg, a 10g saving vs a 9g saving…the more you know
More outrageous sounding, switching from a 5 mpg truck to a 10 mpg truck saves more gas than switching from a 50 mpg car to a 100 mpg car
I still don’t understand hot that statement is “misleading”?
Well a lot of people would think gaining 50 mpg is way better than gaining 5 mpg, since it’s 10x as much, but really it just shows that you can’t use mpg as a unit to compare like that
Of the ~100 billion humans who have ever lived, about 8 billion (8%) are still alive today. Therefore, your chance of dying is 92%, not 100%.
Classic, but very illustrative
Are you assuming that everyone currently alive is immortal? You may be in for some disappointment.
We have no evidence they’re not. Statistically speaking, as many as 8% of humans are potentially immortal.
That’s what’s misleading about it.
Yeah, only about 8% of people currently living are immortal, so don’t get your hopes up.
We have no evidence they’re not. Statistically speaking, as many as 8% of humans are potentially immortal.
It’s common sense that if aging were solved tomorrow, it would be patented and the wealthiest 3% would enjoy much longer lives, while the working class wouldn’t see much change.
Incidentally, longer life would allow even more accumulation of money and power, making inequality worse.
Plus side: billionaires now consider climate change threat #1 and use many more resources to solve it compared to today, rather than only care about the next 40-50 years.
On the down side, they’d probably solve the climate crisis by spreading vaporised peons in the upper atmosphere to block some of the solar radiation.
Wouldn’t that be the chance of any randomly selected person being dead?
Yea, you are right, idk what the original commenter is on.
People reading this, aren’t you just a ray of sunshine with your 92% survival rate?
This is minor one, but annoys me how comnmon this is: light is made out of litle packets of energy called photons.
Here is a good video on the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SDtAh9IwG-I (Too lazy didn’t watch: Light is an electromagnetc wave and is is not quantized. Only the interactions between atoms and light are quantized)
I was under the impression that electromagnetic radiation is both a wave and a particle, and it’s known as the “wave particle duality”.
Waves only collapse into particles during an interaction with other particles.
“Light propagates like a wave and interacts like a particle”
huh, I thought quantization of light(or energy really) came from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
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In DC they actually are moving, but it’s something like a few millimeters per hour on average
Can confirm. Traffic is awful on the Beltway.
The electrons are very much moving, even if at an incredibly slow pace of ~1cm/s. It’s just that they push the electrons ahead of them which puch the ones in front of then, etc. which makes electricity so fast.
It is however somewhat true for AC because there the electrons just get pushed back and forth 50/60 times per second, making them more or less stay in place
Well they do move, but just incredibly slowly.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/350612/speed-of-electrons-in-a-wire
To be fair, electrical engineers make a living by ignoring Maxwell’s equations and the real behavior of electricity (the analogy of electrons pushing each other to transmit energy is also wrong, just less wrong). At RF you can’t ignore them, and RF engineering is often known as black magic.
Since the invention of seatbelts there have been a larger number of serious injuries from car accidents.
This sounds like seatbelts are causing serious injury but in fact, these serious injuries used to be deaths. That statistics is never mentioned causing it to be misleading, just like they never mention how many bugles are in the car when an accident happens
human and chimp DNA is 98.8 percent the same
Still interested in how similar cow or earthworm DNA is. I’d be unsurprised to find they’re also quite high.
Pigs (98%) and bananas (60%) are often quoted examples. Not sure about worms
https://thednatests.com/how-much-dna-do-humans-share-with-other-animals/
I don’t know the exact number, but, come on! Look at those guys! They are basically hairy humans with a slightly less complex system of communication.
Yep but the point is the 1.2% represent millions of gene pairs and the ones we share are not always present or expressed in the same way. So just sharing genes doesn’t necessarily mean were the same or they do the same thing.
Yeah chimps are one of our very few (very very) distant cousins left. But i think they rip more faces off than us
The average human has less than 2 arms.
And half a penis.
On average, humans have just under 3 inches of penis.
One testicle, and one boob
Average arm has less than one human
Haha, that’s even weirder sounding.
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“I’ll call you back as soon as I can”
Working at Lowe’s I’ve learned that I need to tell people “and that might be hours from now this job is hectic”
Add “As soon as possible” to that list as well.
Boss wants something ASAP and it probably means ithey want it very soon and not when you’re free
Some customers get so upset when I explain to them that I have a queue of other customers that I’m helping.
Like they’re offended, as if I don’t care about my job. Pisses me off, because while you’re complaining about my lack of work ethic I’m the guy at work while we’re understaffed because other people have decided not to work. I’m the guy who showed up, and I’m overloaded, and people read it as I’m lazy because it takes me a long time to get back to them.
When people say a politician “raised taxes.” More often than not it’s a tax that does not apply to 99.99% of the population and they raised it from 0.000001% to 0.000002%
But boy do those campaign ads look good
Similarly, when a politician says they cut taxes, middle class tax cuts are almost always intend to “sunset”. That is, eventually, those tax cuts are designed to reverse themselves over time.
Maybe in the US. Most tax cuts that happen in Canada at least don’t tend to have an expiry. Although new governments do tend to reverse previous government’s tax policy. Although it tends to apply to tax policy across the board.
And sooooooo many voting Americans hear this and vote Republican.
Wearing your seatbelt increases your chances of dying from cancer.
It increases your chance of drowning, but not for the reason people usually think.
This one is great! Made me think way too much
How?
If you die from cancer you can’t die from a car wreck.
Other way around, for the purposes of this joke, but yes.
You’ll live longer.
I’ve never lost a professional MMA match
The Seattle Mariners have never lost a World Series game
Why is it called World Series? You kinda forgot to invite the world.
Wait until you hear about the Miss Universe competition…
(Seriously though, I agree.)
Neither have the Seattle SuperSonics.
