Stop hitting yourself! Ah, do you see how my hands, which have been tightly wrapped around your wrists this whole time, are currently not making you hit yourself? You’re welcome.

Its less about naked baby pictures and more about a network of internet connected cameras, which we know that government agencies access, being absolutely everywhere.

And because of all my family members and neighbors with their ring cameras and Alexa microphones. It’s ridiculous.

I think I can make out Sadaam Hussein in the bottom right diagram.

Shörider’s dilemma

That man’s name, Christopher Columbus

There’s certainly a lot to discuss, relative to experimental design and ethics. Peer review and good design hopefully minimize the clearly undesirable scenarios you describe as well as other subtle sources of error.

I was really just trying to explain what we’re looking at on op’s graph.

My limited knowledge on this subject: The z-score is how many standard deviations you are from the mean.

In statistical analysis, things are often evaluated against a p (probability) of 0.05 (or 5%), which also corresponds to a z-score of 1.96 (or roughly 2).

So, when you’re looking at your data, things with a z score >2 or <2 would correspond to findings that are “statistically significant,” in that you’re at least 95% sure that your findings aren’t due to random chance.

As others here have pointed out, z-scores closer to 0 would correspond to findings where they couldn’t be confident that whatever was being tested was any different than the control, akin to a boring paper which wouldn’t be published. “We tried some stuff but idk, didn’t seem to make a difference.” But it could also make for an interesting paper, “We tried putting healing crystals above cancer patients but it didn’t seem to make any difference.”

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

• Carl Sagan

In the videos I’ve seen there are usually at least 5 ice guys with body armor and at least a couple have rifles. Good luck against that with your little pew-pew.

It’s like they didn’t understand the appeal of the original vw bus.

If each segment is 5 feet, none of the snakes are 12 feet long and the first line on the right starts at -15ft, according to the values we can see. This snake police lineup length scale is nonsense!

Joe Biden has really done a number on these people.

I certainly hope you’re right.

Also, it seems to have been written by an arrogant 19 year old. Everyone knows what a cornucopia is.