Ryan Thompson
Dare ObasanjoThe average US president has been charged with 2 felonies.
Bill, organizer of stuff
Jungle George 🌴🌳🌲🍃
Keen Grasp@wcbdata @carnage4life I’m already forgetful, are all the “campaign finance” charges of the “hush money paid to sex workers” category or are those just a subset? I can’t keep track of all these felonies.
duobham@keengrasp @wcbdata @carnage4life
These are just the charges that they feel like they might be able to win. I bet this guy and his gang of scoundrels have crimed a hundred times more, yet prosecutors aren't sure if they can convince juries. Emoluments might be too hard for some jurors to understand.
Dan Ciruli@carnage4life And THIS is why we use median, not mean!
Fandangio
LeaBug
grouchox
Georg Arne Spenden@danciruli @carnage4life Still searching the medianing of life...
sabik@carnage4life
“average US president charged with 2 felonies” factoid actualy just statistical error. average US president charged with 0 felonies. Felonies Don is an outlier adn should not have been counted
“average US president charged with 2 felonies” factoid actualy just statistical error. average US president charged with 0 felonies. Felonies Don is an outlier adn should not have been counted
Marc Jacobs@sabik @carnage4life Robust mean and robust standard deviation for the win.
Jorge StolfiBut there clearly was a radical change in the process around 2018. Among all the presidents who completed their mandate after that date, the average, mode, and mean are 91 felonies per president.
Scott Perry@sabik @carnage4life @steve oh no, don't ignore a felon having had power. this is where modal analysis comes into play: "in a bimodal distribution, presidents have committed either zero or ninety two felonies"
J Λ M Ξ S@sabik @carnage4life 42% of statistics are made up
cybik 
peacememories@root you get an irony gold star https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg
Shifty Skip
Greg@sabik @carnage4life literally the tag line of the source article lol
https://www.businessinsider.com/average-us-president-charged-with-2-felonies-now-trump-2023-8
https://www.businessinsider.com/average-us-president-charged-with-2-felonies-now-trump-2023-8
Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD@greg @sabik @carnage4life The Insider article does not have the same graphs. I believe that the graph came from @Climatologist49 on the former bird site. It should be credited to him.
Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑@sabik @carnage4life But are you talking about statistics, or just the math? Pure math does not care about outliers, only statistics do.
It's like saying since Peter ate some of John's apples, he was thrown out of the room and should not be counted.
yady@sabik @carnage4life I'd say there is a subtle difference between 'the average president has been charged with 2 felonies' (which is false for the reason you mentioned) and 'the average number of felonies that each president has been charged with is 2' (which is mathematically correct, but should be viewed as 'before interpretation' and so 'before removing outliers from the data set').
Sean Blakey@sabik Bonus points for "adn". Well done.
Deborah Pickett@sabik Amazing how many of the replies don’t recognize the standard “outlier should not have been included” meme template. @carnage4life
raytraced@sabik @carnage4life we hope he’s an outlier and that he’s not a teflon don.
Aidan Harding@carnage4life don't be so mean!
Jan Adriaenssens@carnage4life Soon additional data on your charts:
- # of convictions (pp)
- # of pardoned convictions (pp)
- # of sélf pardoned convictions (pp)
(pp: per president)
Hawkmoon
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Oli T@carnage4life "Felonies Georg, who lives on a golf course & commits over 91 each term, is an outlier and should not have been counted"
River Brandon@carnage4life Statistics!!
SerenityUn graphique avec tous les présidents américains passés et actuel en abscisse, et en ordonnée le nombre de mises en examen. Tout le monde est à zéro sauf trump qui fait monter la moyenne générale à 2 avec sa colonne de 91 chefs d'accusations.
lachlan slowly taming rust@carnage4life If it weren't for a pardon, Nixon would have though too right?
(noting, I'm from Aus, so my US history isn't great - and this is by no means defending the crimes of the haircut with the red hat)
I̵E̶E̸E̵ ̷1̵1̸4̴9̴.̷1̷@lachlan @carnage4life correct, however it probably would have still been less than 90+.
Zen Zero ☯️ ◯
brandizzi@carnage4life I'm a bit surprised there were no other indicted presidents.
7leaguebootdisk𓅽@brandizzi @carnage4life President Grant got a speeding ticket, on a horse drawn carriage, in 1872. He paid the fine with no drama, and protected the black officer from retaliation from the other rich people he'd busted. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-president-ulysses-s-grant-was-arrested-for-speeding-in-a-horse-drawn-carriage-180981916/
Eric A. Meyer
Stefan@7leaguebootdisk Til that there were speed limits for horse carriages
Scissors Cut Paper...#AltText: Image of a bar graph with numbers representing US Presidents along the x-axis and increments of 10 representing numbers of felony indictments along the y-axis. 45 on the x-axis has 91, color-coded with the indictment buckets and showing the numbers of indictments in each bucket.
Carnage@carnage4life obligatory Spiders Georg reference
Zalasur 🐸🇺🇦@carnage4life As it turns out, President Crimes McGee was an outlier and should not have been counted in the total 😉
Alyson Decker@carnage4life @kennyhoeschen Statistics don’t lie! 😂
Brandon Rohrer
Randy Au 🙃@brohrer @carnage4life NuMbErS dOn'T LiE bRo!
El Jefe "
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@carnage4life so one bad apple ruined the whole barrel.
Xymon@carnage4life ah, but what is the mean, and what does that mean mean? 🤔😇
Dannyboyguyman@carnage4life the more precise average is 1.978 at this time.
Duncan Watson@carnage4life reasons why mean/average is such an annoying default statistic to use.
Canageek@carnage4life damn, talk about Crimes Georg (I can explain the meme if you're not familiar with it, I'm not sure how well it's known outside of Tumblr)
Stephen@carnage4life felonies georg, who lives in florida…
CheapPontoon@carnage4life
I think I see a trend. Let's calculate the slope of that line.
I think I see a trend. Let's calculate the slope of that line.
Allan@carnage4life beautiful!
@carnage4life Fake News don't lie it's only 1.97826 felony charges per president
Tom Swerts@carnage4life
It's just math 🙂
It's just math 🙂
screenspan@carnage4life …but not if you ignore “(out)LIARS” ;-)
Leonardo Ferreira Fontenelle@carnage4life the numbers don't lie
Andrew@carnage4life If we assume this is exponential and all presidents up to Obama committed less than half a felony, this predicts Biden will eventually snap and commit 16 thousand felonies (I assume all of them trespassing on rail lines). Whoever comes next will commit 3 million