#statistical information

[dreamstz1]

Exploring the Tanzanian Economy: A Comprehensive Analysis

Tanzania, a country located in East Africa, has been experiencing significant economic growth and development in recent years. From its diverse natural resources to its growing industries, Tanzania’s economy is a topic of interest for many. In this blog post, we will delve into various aspects of the Tanzanian economy to provide a detailed analysis.What is the Current Economic Situation in…

[very-gay-alkyrion]

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[dontforgetukraine]

russian invasion of Ukraine: 24.02.2022 - 24.11.2024

Crimes of russia against the media and journalists in Ukraine.

-762 crimes against the media and journalists were committed by Russia in Ukraine during two years and nine months since its large scale invasion of Ukrainian territory.

Categories of Violations

92 journalists and media workers killed in total; 12 of them died while performing editorial assignments

14 journalists are currently missing

29 times journalists were kidnapped

41 journalists were wounded

2 attempted murders

21 TV towers shelled

44 incidents of shooting into journalists

22 editorial offices sized/ruined by russians

35 incidents with switching off Ukrainian broadcasting

83 death threats, intimidation of journalists

94 cyber crimes

329 media outlets closed down due to Russia's invasion

10 digital blockades of Ukrainian media in russia

26 incidents of legal pressure

[greekmythcomix]

DEATH in the ILIAD: an Infographic

(originally 2014, updated slightly for 2023 - hey it's almost as old as Homer's Trojan War was long!)

[dzee-szed]

I'm doing grad student work in technical writing. I'm writing an essay about adjusting user manuals to match the reader's preferences.

Please share this poll around! This is secretly a poll about Kolb's Learning Styles. I've never seen a poll about Kolb's styles before, and I want to see which of these preferences is most common.

This is v2 of this poll. My first poll got feedback about choices not quite matching the Kolb styles. Feel free to leave feedback in the replies or tags. Thanks for your help!

[broken-clover]

The thought only occurs to me now that the one hand Baiken has is her left. What's the likelihood that it was her original dominant one? I can't help wondering if in addition to the horrific trauma and adapting to living with one eye she also had to completely relearn writing after losing her dominant hand

[arabellasdoingthework]

Day 5/100

today was a great focus day, I am very impressed at myself (pat pat)

Information retrieval at 8am, Marketing at 10am, study time during lunch, Applied Statistics at 15:30.

I finally got the Python scripts to work (after 4hs) and I already knew some of the content of today's Statistics lecture so I am feeling great! How are you guys doing? Use this post as study stress dumping place. I'll be reading.

ToDo at home

Project Management presentation preparation

Advance with Marketing presentation

Evaluate the boolean search engine I compiled today

[icewindandboringhorror]

I've referenced before how I have a big google document to keep track of every media I've ever seen in my entire life (just for reference because I like to track everything possible lol… I am the Data Collector), but recently as I was updating it, I thought of actually evaluating them to find out random percentages (like for example, out of Total Shows Watched, what percentage did I finish vs. stop watching, what percentage did I like or dislike, etc.)...

Evaluating these things is made easier by the fact that I already place everything on each subsection of the list into 6 broad ranking categories, so I don't have to go back and guess to figure out how I feel about them or anything. The categories are: Ranking 5 - overall best* (despite some criticisms of course because I'm too much of an Analyzer to ever find anything Perfect lol) Ranking 4 - more positive than neutral, but not good enough to be 5 Ranking 3 - either the good + bad negate each other, OR it's just not memorable/interesting in any way enough to be ranked higher or lower (this is the Default category ALL things are placed in if no other rank applies) Ranking 2 - maybe a few redeemable elements but largely more negatives than positives Ranking 1 - So bad that it circles around to being fascinating to observe in some way (not necessarily Funny, or Good, but just interesting somehow) Ranking 0 - Bad in a genuinely frustrating or obnoxious manner

*("best" primarily defined here as most interesting, rather than most good in a technical sense, or some other measure. I tend to value more highly whether there's something novel or thoughtful about the worldbuilding, tone, writing, base premise, etc - than about whether it's actually executed perfectly.)

And here's the amount of shows that have so far been placed into each category -

TV shows ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 20 shows ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 28 shows ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 114 shows ~ Rank 2 (mid low) -33 shows ~ Rank 1 (low low but intriguingly so) - 14 shows ~ Rank 0 (iredeemably low) - 2 shows

This would make for a total of 211 TV shows overall. However, there are 57 shows within these list marked as "didn't finish" (typically meaning I quit on the very first or second episode - but log them still to keep a record that I at least had a brief view of them).

So my total of genuinely fully watched shows would be more 154. 211 Total, but a More Accurate Total of 154.

Counting them all and using the Total Number Of The List (211) -- that means roughly 9.5% of all total shows I have ever watched (or at least attempted to watch) have been Mostly Good, 13% have been Moderately Okay, 54% have been either entirely Forgettable or some mix of good + bad that lands them right in the Neutral Middle, 15.6% have been Mostly Bad, 6.6% have been Bad (but in an interesting way), and 0.9% have been Terribly Bad.

Additionally, I didn't even get past the first two episodes of about 27% of the total.

Sooo, discounting ones I didn't finish, my total TV shows ever watched in my life would be about 154 (maybe give or take a few, assuming I might have forgotten some from very long ago).

But instead of entire life, let's just say this is the total for 'About 20 Years' (so, not counting very early childhood when I likely wouldn't remember things I saw/have no detailed recollection of them (like for example, I'm sure at some point when I was like 4yrs old I must have seen an episode of Spongebob or something, but I have zero distinct memories of it, can't quote anything of it, and barely recall the premise - so I don't count it on the list, etc.)).

In that case, 154 divided by 20 would be roughly 7.7 shows a year.

Which is actually surprisingly low considering that I often have stuff on in the background for hours whilst I make sculptures and do costumes and stuff (maybe I should have also marked some distinction between 'things I fully paid attention to' and 'things I kind of half listened to whilst sculpting', but that would further split the categories too much probably lol), but I guess a lot of that is youtube videos or random documentaries, so .. eh.. maybe I get it being lower.

Now, doing the same thing for movies-

Movies ~ Rank 5 (highest) - 4 movies (3.4% of total) ~ Rank 4 (mid-high) - 12 movies (10.3% of total) ~ Rank 3 (neutral/default/meh) - 91 movies (78.4% of total) ~ Rank 2 (mid low) - 8 movies (6.8% of total) ~ Rank 1 (low but interesting) - 1 movie (0.8% of total) ~ Rank 0 (irredeemably low) - none in this category (0%)

That makes 116 for a Total (Actually Remembered) Movies Watched In Lifetime (Or At Least In 20 Years).

116 divided by 20 is roughly 5 or 6 movies a year (I feel this has probably been skewed though by adding everything since like elementary school onwards, as I remember a lot more movies from child/teen years.. Whereas, the past 3 years I feel like I've barely seen maybe even 5 movies?? lol). I also have "Didn't Finish" marked on 18 of them. Which means I quit halfway through about 15% of the total movies.

So, a for broader summary stuff..

I seem to be less forgiving to movies than tv shows, by far. Which makes sense to me, I guess, because I love elaboration and details, so "short form" things that only last an hour or two are often lost on me a bit. My biggest complaint with movies is indeed usually walking away just wishing there had been more exposition, more scenes where characters are doing nothing, more "mindless bantering" conversations, more Quiet Downtime and Lore Elaboration and so on lol, so... of course most 1-2hr films end up feeling a bit Not Enough To Draw My Interest/Nothingy to me.

If you count 5 and 4 as "like" and rankings 2 to 0 as "dislike", then for TV shows I at least somewhat liked 48 of them, and at least somewhat disliked 47 of them.. So it's almost exactly the same lol. I'm just about equally as likely to find something bad as I am to find something redeeming about it. But overall, the largest chance is that I just won't really care much for it at all and it will be tossed into the 'neutral' pile, forgotten forever. Movies have a bit better of a balance, "liking" 16 of them, and "disliking" only 9 of them. So I'm slightly more likely to enjoy a movie than to find it annoying - though still VASTLY more likely to just not find it anything in particular, possibly not even finishing it.

ANYWAY.. this is vague and literally pointless, but like I said, I just really find information fun. Like my document where I've rated every apple flavor I've ever tried (like 40 of them now?), or reviewed every oreo flavor (32?), or ranking data from my entire 10 years of Trying To Make Friends process (out of 100 people, roughly 8% chance of a moderate compatibility, 3% chance of high), or etc. etc.. I love to have random pointless things to analyze I suppose lol.

I doubt anyone tracks things in their life in this same exact way, but I'd be interested in hearing any at least somewhat similar data !!! (like, how many TV shows you watch a year on average, and what percentage of those you like vs. dislike (if you keep track of that sort of thing), etc.)). I guess it might be easier with movies, since I think some people use those websites where you curate a list of movies you've seen and you can rate them or something, so maybe the numbers are already available on those places. :0

[knowlesian]

one of the handy things being a word nerd/ex-debate kid taught me is that if you talk long enough and do enough fancy rhetorical backflips you can make a reasonably convincing argument for some absolutely ridiculous ideas, especially if your audience doesn’t have a level of baseline knowledge to lean back on

the reason this is handy because it also taught me that just because somebody sounds confident and seems informed doesn’t mean they aren’t cherrypicking data and thus, using the truth to lie their fucking faces off

[bbq-potato-chip]

i think that if ulquiorra were to somehow like. survive and live in the human world in some sort of gigai/secret mission type thing i think he'd still continue to try and Figure Humans out (he'd be more normal about it, now having the whole heart question figured out) and he'd try to understand other human things besides, ya know, basic human emotions and morals. Of course, he would go to orihime, who has undoubtedly proven herself to be well, a humans expert, for advice. but what he doesnt know is that she is also extremely strange in her own way so it'd just result in him getting weirder which i just think would be incredibly funny.

[bananasofthorns]

pspsps people who did/are doing an mlis. what bachelors degree did you do and what are some of the degrees you know other people in your program did? I am trying to figure out. college stuff (also feel free to tell me any other experiences/advice you have related to an mlis!)

[klainepolls]

Battle of the Klaine Kisses - Round 2, Match 3

Full bracket / All polls

[fogwitchoftheevermore]

evolution smp 🤝 comics

having a pretty large backlog of content that many people are unwilling to consume before getting into the fandom so they make art/fic/posts from a “solely read fanfiction and not consumed the media itself” space and it results in beliefs about the world/characters/lore that are extremely divorced from the series itself overtaking the fan space.

[frankenshane]

maybe this is a luddite position, but noticing that generative ai has greatly reduced the functionality of former mainstay search engines is reasonable to point out, even in cases where the search engine has degraded over time prior to their chatgpt parts.

[jayktoralldaylong]

It wasn't till I realised how gigantic Cassian's wings are that I remembered he and Azriel are lesser Fae. They really do walk everywhere with giant wings at their back because they can't make them disappear and reappear. Giant bat wings are the Illyrian version of a tail, green skin, webbed feet or sharp teeth. They don't have super powers, they're just elves with wings (and Siphons of course, but we get the idea).

I figured Human vs Fae would be the biggest point of racism in this world but OMG how the Old Generation of Royals detest the Lesser Fae.💀 Like ah ahn, your own race again?? Lucien's execution was ordered cause he insisted on marrying one. Rhys' father was furious too.

It was bad enough that he found out his mate was Lesser Fae. Bad enough that he'd decided he'd take the risk with a hybrid child and raise Rhys so strong and cold enough to withstand the hate he'd been born into. Then he sends his son off to training and Rhys comes back having befriended the two most infamous bastards in the entire of Illyria and was calling them "brother". Nah, Rhys' father boiled. 💀💀💀 Legit sent Cassian to the front lines of every battle and kept Azriel so busy he'd never leave his side.

(Also hypocritical about the Lesser Fae being less cause they barely pass as human).

Cassian - An orphan titled the prince of Bastards for reasons that are spoilers.

Azriel - Born from a 'mistress', speaks to shadows, mangled and scarred by his family's torture.

Baby Rhys: They are my brothers. 😌😊

His Dad, explodes with rage: Lesser born half breeds and you call them your family?! Do you think I worked this hard to raise you to perfection just for you to throw it all away.

Rhys: But they're my brothers. 😭

His Dad: They're weaknesses that's what they are. 😒I will not have you be the death of me Rhysand! Rhys: (Ends up bringing about his father's death because he befriended TAMLIN! 💀 - Real ironic. Tamlin, the pureblood High Fae, the downfall of Rhys' family.)

[nametakensff]

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