What's a fact that's technically true but nobody understands correctly? (r/AskReddit)
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"the customer is always right" only refers to purchases being made. Not whatever complaint they have. I.e. you like product A, but product B sells better. The customer is right, buy more product B.
I prefer "The customer is king."
Smile, agree, and do it the right way regardless.
@@wesleythomas7125 I prefer people follow store policy
The full quote is "The customer is always right, in matters of taste."
I review weed products on my TH-cam channel as my job 🙏screw college, most jobs won’t hire me
@@SevenHunnid I wonder why, Steven.
You can disagree on one point and still get along fine with someone
This applies to both platonic and romantic relationships. Some people really think that a relationship should be like a fairy tale smh
unfortunately this has become rare year by year (especially in politics). when people used to agree to disagree and then continue forward, now if you disagree, you become personal enemy.
the classic "if you are not with us, you are against us"
I disagree and hate you for it.
Likewise you can agree with them on almost every point yet still despise them.
A direct proof of that is me and another guy by the nickname of Redvis.
Our view on society and economics are pretty much the polar opposites - there is not a single point we agree on concerning societal structure and such. But we still get along perfectly fine.
I don’t think most people understand the hot coffee lawsuit at all. The coffee wasn’t “hot” it was boiling. If you think the lawsuit is frivolous and it wasn’t that bad then right now go boil a pot of water so hot that the water is spitting out and pour it on your genitals. After doing that if you haven’t spilled the water all over while your flailing about in pain try drinking it as if it’s just been served to you as a coffee.
Another thing people misunderstand is they believe (mostly due to McDonalds smear campaign) that the woman was clumsily drinking the coffee while driving. Meanwhile, in reality, she was the passenger in her son's car and they had parked in the McDonald's parking lot immediately after getting their food to add cream and sugar to their coffee. The spill happened because she had some difficulty getting the lid off and it suddenly popped open, causing her hand to jolt and the coffee to tip over. It soaked into her sweatpants and gave her 3rd degree burns all over her groin and parts of her legs.
This incident and lawsuit is why a lot of places stopped letting people add their own cream and sugar to their coffee and would ask how much you want and add it before handing you the coffee.
Also, the entire reason they were selling the coffee that scalding hot in the first place was so, by the time people drove to work with it, it would be the right temperature to drink rather than lukewarm. They didn't want to lower the temperature because the coffee would be less popular among the customers buying it to take to work.
Honselty I just think its weird that she got the idea to sue them for it. If a friend makes me a hot tea and I spill it on myself I'd never in a million years think of blaming my friend in any form.
Like why would MCDonalds have to pay for her medical expenses? I mean it sucks that the US doesn't have free health care but I really don't understand why she expected them to pay.
@@ducklingscap897 two reasons.
1) Other countries, particularly EU countries, have strong consumer protection laws that will take action against McDonalds serving their coffee dangerously hot like that. But here in the U.S., that responsibility is mostly foisted onto the injured party. It's just a result of how the American civil legal process is structured.
2) Your friend isn't a company with legal requirements to serve tea at a safe temperature. Though, even still, I really find the stance questionable; if your friend served you tea at 200F (~93C), such that even a careless spill could cause grievous bodily harm, you don't see any tort on their part? If they invite you for dinner and provide you with a knife that has been honed to unnecessary and dangerous sharpness, and you severely cut yourself, you don't see any tort on their part? Of course, if they genuinely were a friend, they should offer something on their own rather than making you have to force it. But McDonalds isn't your friend. They are a business; a corporation. Not only is their job to make money, in the U.S., they are *legally required* to do what is within their power to maximize return on investment for their shareholders and part of that involves resisting even reasonable claims of damages/injury.
@@ducklingscap897 She sued them because if McDonalds had actually served her coffee that she could have actually drunk she wouldn’t have gotten 3rd degree burns and needed tens of thousands to cover her medical treatment.
@@ducklingscap897 its because the coffee was served at 190 °F and not the typical 160 °F. so McDonalds could save money but McDonalds is a multibillion dollar company and didn't need to save that money. There was also 700+ other cases before this where McDonalds coffee seriously burned someone. She was also 79 years old and almost died and the 3rd degree burns in less than a second, later caused sepsis and eventually help in part to her passing away. Finally her medical bills were $20,000 and she could not pay them so she only sued them for that amount but in the end the court awarded her with $3 million. If you still aren't convinced look up the burn photos.
Well, it’s not _technically_ true, but it is misunderstood...
“People that lived during the Renaissance only lived into their 30s.”
The 30s was an _average._ It was skewed by an unfortunately high infant mortality rate. There is a difference between lifespan and life expectancy. Life expectancy is a statistical topic. The life expectancy was between the 30s and 40s, the _averaged_ ages of the population at death.
A _very_ simplified but sad example: There’s 5 people. 4 die in infancy and one dies at 75. That group’s life expectancy would be 15-years-old even though none of them had a lifespan even close to 15 years.
Edit: Wrote this before I watched the video. It’s mentioned in 21:56.
I was going to say that, and now I know that it appeared in the video AND you already said it
I always understood the "We only use 10% of the brain" figure as meaning "We only use 10% of the brain _for intelligent, conscious thought,_ as the rest of the brain is tied up in things like sensory processing, memory, autonomic functions, and other unconscious processes."
oh yeah, that does make sense
I don't think that's it though, I'm pretty sure that was just all scientists understood at the time and people thought it meant that was all we used. Correct me if I'm wrong, the only reason I'm doubting is because you started with "I always understood " which made it seem more like an interpretation you had rather than you trying to share a fact (if that makes sense).
The video explained it and still people don't know what it means ffs
No, it was actually from a very unclear statement by someone who, I believe, was a philosopher rather than a psychologist or neurologist. The statement, if I remember correctly, was something to the effect of "if only people used more than ten percent of their brains" but the context did not make it clear whether this was meant sarcastically, figuratively or literally (although one of the first two are more likely). Somehow, the statement was still taken as being fact, despite the lack of clarity. Eh... if I'm interested enough, I'll look it up later.
As was explained in the video - 1) Scientists never actually said this, the origin is unknown, and 2) To the extent that it's true, it's only true in the same way that we only ever use 33% of a traffic light at any given moment. Negative space is important, as things are as much defined by what they are not as by what they are. If all the lights on a traffic light were on (100% use), you would have no idea what to do because that state doesn't tell you if you should go, stop, or get ready to change state. 100% usage (all on) is functionally identical to 0% usage (all off), or 66% usage (two of the three on).
Another user pointed out that a page of a book only covers about 25% of the page in ink. Covering the page 100% in ink wouldn't create "the greatest literary work in existance", it would just be a black page with no words on it 😅 Similarly, if you lit up all the pixels on your computer or phone screen 100%, you wouldn't have the "greatest image ever created", you would just have a white screen. Again, negative space is important, as things are defined as much by what they are not, as by what they are.
So in a nutshell, if you used 100% of your brain at once, you wouldn't be a genius - you would just die, or at best have an epileptic seizure.
Food banks are horrible. The government thinks it does not need to do its part to help people living in poverty because they expect us to keep doing it, but if we stop, people suffer.
To be blunt, the Government would make the situation worst, because there go to solve issues is to throw money at the problem. They rarely ever have a plan.
CA is a prime example of this. They gave away homes to homeless people to lower the homeless rate. What happened was homeless people from all over the country to get a free home, because if you were homeless, wouldn't you want a free home?
It sky rocketed the homeless rates in CA and now there is now a much bigger issue than before.
The “American schools are terrible” one.
The best way I can describe what makes our schools bad is this;
Remember in Harry Potter and the order of the phoenix when the ministry was interfering at hogwarts? That is americas public school system. It has good and bad repercussions from that though. But that’s essentially what it is. Too many people are interfering with what can be done or said in schools. All in the name of “protecting students”.
This the main reason why people think american schools are bad, but people forget that the actual level of education is far lower. I'm in Ireland, and the final year maths/english courses in the US are equivalent to 2nd-3rd year here. (9th grade age 14/15 year olds), and as such, even people who manage to graduate in the US, still have a lower level of education than in many other developed countries (we did an SAT for the craic in school and it was ridiculously easy for us as 6th years (18 y/o))
@@eimearfleming2614 yeah. The stuff they prioritize here make no sense. We learn about so much stuff that is totally useless.. and the stuff that is useful they barely focus on if at all. Math they keep overcomplicating. I was always really good at math myself, but almost everyone you meet here is bad at it. And when they’re in school, they know they’re bad at math. Yet for some reason once they’re out of school they forget that and think they know everything and give incorrect answers confidently 😂 but even me being good at math, I took algebra in 7th grade. Which was the advanced class, because everyone else wasn’t taking it until 9th grade in high-school. But I still felt 7th grade was pretty late to be learning about that.
Unfortunately, the problem is not that the government is interfering, its that politicians from too many parts of government are interfering regularly and inconsistently - ideally, the government should have a small group of people actually interested in giving the best possible education interfere, and do so rarely but on a regular schedule and these people should none of them have ever held a political office and should have recently been in a classroom with teenagers for an extended period of time but also be very well read about the topic.
@@blumoogle2901 lmaoooo. You think politicians and our government are different things???? Oh boy…
Oh no, Professor umbrage
“It’s not bullying if it’s not repetitive” So many people say you’re bullying them when you insult them ONCE, and it’s so darn stupid
This is only partly true. Sometimes, a single act can be considered bullying if it is henus enough but not he us enough to fall under a specific crime area like SA or a*sault. It really up to whatever originations to define what bullying is and how they will handle it.
Just because someone works in the service/hospitality industry, it does not mean they're your servant. They are providing a service. Treat them like equal humans, because they are.
If you ask someone who works in the produce department where shampoo is, they may not know. It doesn't mean they're stupid. It means they've been trained in produce and don't spend their free time learning every aisle in their store.
I work at Home Depot and customers don't seem to understand that:
The store is huge, and it has literally thousands of different items. Nobody knows everything we have and where it is, even if they've been working there for years. Often when an employee says where they think it is it's at best an educated guess.
A store of that size has significant division of labor and people are only extensively trained in the department they work in. Someone in the plumbing section will know a lot about plumbing fixtures but almost nothing about electrical items. I dare say many of our professional customers know more about the products than we do.
Employees walking quickly to the back of the store are likely on break and are on their way to the break room. Leave them alone please.
Cashiers mostly work in the front of the store and know very little about where items in the store located; they are not the most knowledgeable about item locations, they are actually in fact the least.
Again, there are literally thousands of items and it is not possible or reasonable to expect a cashier to know the price of all of them. You physically bring it to them they can certainly scan it to check the price but there is no way they have all of them memorized.
If your credit or debit card is denied, we have no idea why. And WE didn't deny your card; when you try to run your card, the store sends a request to your card's issuer to charge the card, and THEY'RE the ones that say yes or no. So if your card's declined and you don't believe it should have been, complain to them, not us. We have zero control over it.
I'm going to stop now before this is several pages long but I could probably add a ton more.
A 20% chance of rain doesn’t mean there’s a 20% chance it will rain. It means there is a 100% chance that at least 20% of the forecasted area will receive rain
Wow, Interesting. I never knew that!
That is not correct either. On 20% of "similar" cases, it did rain. What is considered "similar," however, is a matter of professional opinion and experience.
not quite, it means 20% of the statistical models they used to predict where the rain was going will cover that area (they try tons of models). so yeah, there's a 20% chance that the given area will experience rain.
source: took a stats class on predictive modeling and had a bit on how the weather report works
21.43 it would actually start forming in the whole pond at the same time. If water below 4°C had a higher density than above, the surface water cooled down initially would sink and expose the warmer water to the air. Over time, all the water would cool down at about the same rate and reach 0° at the same time. This would be extremely hostile to *many* life forms.
plus: the water "stirring" around would take oxygen to the ground of the pond and annoy (kill) any anaerobic bacteria, from which most of the life on earth developed in the first place.
So yeah we're damn lucky water is the densest above its freezing point.
I can't hear the 50% of marriages ending in divorce statistic without thinking of that "Justice League" episode where some TV personality is dragging the Justice League and asks if they're so great "How come 50% of marriages end in divorce, and the other 50% in death!"
I remember a similar joke from The Daily Show where one of the field reporters said something along the lines of, "30% of Americans are victims of crime every year. Which means 70% of Americans are criminals."
I work in the food industry and I'm sick of people using "allergy" to mean "intolerance", there's a huge fecking difference, one is life and death and one is a bubbly tummy
I am married to a woman with celiac, and I'm sick of people hearing "allergy" and reasoning that "if they don't go into anaphylactic shock, they must not be actually allergic". In reality, a gluten allergy is extremely harmful and I hope that food workers such as yourself understand and appreciate that.
@@johnm5928 the definition is as I said, we learn this every 6 months.
An example I can give is a young woman who claimed to be celiac such as your wife, she claimed she couldn't have spaghetti bolognese, fair enough no big deal we appreciate being told, so we make all appropriate actions so she doesn't die, a few days later we're serving Lasagna, she asks to have some, we inform her the pasta in it contains gluten and that we can prepare something for her if she wants, she says "oh no thats ok, I'm ok with lasagna, I'll risk getting a stomach ache".
Umm no? That's not an allergy to wheat that's an intolerance (assuming she's even telling the truth), this happens almost everyday
I have alcoholism. I heard alcoholism is allergy to alcohol/drugs. Allergy
in my case means I don't react normally to addictive substances. Allergy doesn't have to be a rash.
The programmer's example for Murphy's Law is 100% a thing. Similar, but not exactly Murphy's Law, we like to say "Where there's a user, there's a way."
You pay more in taxes the more you earn. This breaks down because of the misunderstanding of marginal tax brackets. If you make over the 22 percent bracket, for example, you only pay 22 percent of what you have earned beyond that 22 percent and the next bracket. Tax brackets are best thought of as buckets. Once one is full, you fill the next, and only pay percentages of your income that falls in that respective bucket.
Tell that to Amazon.
Light travels as a wave, and arrives as a particle.
and is emitted as a particle if i understand correctly
didn't think about it that way before, but it absolutely makes sense. Thanks for en*light*ening me
Think of it this way: the universe is *really big* and the GPU is kind of out of date because the universe is also *really old.* So there's only so much processing power for rendering. It won't render what it doesn't need to; only particles that are interacting with other particles need rendering. So, for particles that don't need rendering, they are broken down into "virtual particles" based on a waveform equation of where they will _probably_ be after any given amount of time. Sure, this system makes weird bugs and graphical glitches here and there and can lead to issues of particles "clipping" into areas they shouldn't be able to reach if they had been continuously rendered, but it works well enough and saves a *boatload* of processing power.
@@omargoodman2999 That's good!
I have a shorter one, though.
The universe only exists because God is looking.
It only changes because God isn't looking all the time.
Yours is FAR more accurate. But the short one is more elegant. And doesn't ACTUALLY require a belief in god to understand.
But you do bring up a point often overlooked: AN ELECTRON is a sufficient "observer" to "change" the outcome of an event. The photon that "changes" the result of an experiment will do so whether or not it ever enters an eye, ANY EYE. The observer is not the intelligent, conscious mind; it is any other particle that interacts in any way with the particle in question.
So about that light acting as both a wave and particle post, it is actually the case for every object in existence. Experiments ment to make light act as a wave, such as Young’s double slit experiment, also work for particles with a mass like electrons. If you know the mass and speed of a tennis ball, you can calculate it’s wavelength, although the frequency is so incredibly small that the trajectory is not changed. Basically the smaller an object is, the easiest it is to make it exhibit wave behavior like diffusion, so we can only really consider the wave nature of small objects like sub particles.
The customer is always right it refers to the customers always right in what they like and what's their opinion and they go to an expert that can help find them find the right option
It’s like if a grocery store has a Cereal isle and they sold out of cereal for a week. When they get a new shipment of stock and supplies they should restock more cereal because it sells better. Saying the customer isn’t right would be like stocking more bacon instead of the cereal the customer wants.
"The customer is always right _in matters of taste"_
Everyone always forgets that second part of the full saying. It means don't be obtrusive with your customers; just because *you* don't like your steak well done doesn't mean you should impose that opinion on people paying you money to serve them steak. You're completely free to think whatever you want about them, but still give them their well done steak and take their money.
There are lots of sayings like that that got trimmed down because people got so familiar with them, you only needed to "hum the first part" and everyone could complete the rest in their own mind. But, over time, people who had never heard the whole saying kept hearing older people saying just the first part, expecting others to just automatically understand the back half and full meaning of the saying, without bothering to teach the newer generation the backstory of the saying. So people had to come up with a "good enough" understanding of just the first half of lots of these "common wisdom" sayings on their own.
"Curiosity killed the cat..." implies curiosity is dangerous, "... but satisfaction brought him back" the rest of the saying shows that its the wondering without knowing that was the bad thing and figuring it out is a good thing.
"Jack of all trades, master of none..." suggests that broad knowledge of several skillsets prevents focusing on a single skill to mastery, "... but still often better than a master of one." The full saying suggests that overspecialization is actually the detriment and that focusing exclusively on a single skill just to master it prevents you from gaining a broad skill base and that broad skill base is actually better.
"Great minds think alike..." implies that sharing the same idea as someone else is a sign of intelligence "... but fools seldom differ." The full saying actually shows that, while intelligent people can reason to a similar conclusion, foolish people typically don't bother and just go with what everyone else thinks.
And there are plenty more to find.
@@omargoodman2999 The one that annoys me to no end. Is anytime people excuse the actions of a few bad people by saying "It's just a few bad apples."
When the full saying is 'A few bad apples spoils the bunch'
There's always going to be a few 'bad apples' in any large enough group, point is you need to get rid of them, or they all go bad. Not just say well there's just a few bad ones lets just do nothing and hope it gets better.
Consider that in America every person is entitled to a public education, regardless of their abilities. There are other developed countries where the disabled or disadvantaged or those who cannot keep up with the curriculum are simply excluded. The reason U.S. test scores are lower is that we are testing more students across a wider range of abilities.
The same is true within the US regarding test scores. Red states rate high in the SAT, however only gifted students take the test to begin with, as it isn't a requirement in most states, whereas in many blue states, it is a requirement, therefore lower scores reflect the fact that everyone of every ability takes the test.
Edit: this is not meant to start a political war. Simply pointing something out.
18:10 Well that's wrong. The government not only has to respect your right to say what you think, but in some case they have the responsibility to protect you if you do say something people don't like. The most obvious example of this is something Reddit goes on about for ages. That a company can't make a rule that you can't talk about your wages. Other examples would be a company retaliating for complaints about them. A different example would be if you ran into a majority black neighborhood and screamed the N word the police would be obligated to protect you from any violent actions taken against you.
Not to mention the fact that when people bring up the concept of Free speech they're also talking about the larger cultural aspect that's about respecting others rights to say what you want thar birthed the first amendment.
These rules are not actually First Amendment rights iirc. The First Amendment is only covering protection from infringements by the government, the other stuff is not First Amendment rights, they're other things. The government is not required *by the first amendment* to protect your freedom of speech, but it may be required by other federal, state or local laws to do so. Companies taking retaliatory action is under laws such as the False Claims Act, and talking about wages is under the National Labor Relations Act. The police are required to prevent crimes, and attacking someone is a crime, but shouting the N word is not a factor in whether it is a crime or not.
On paper thats true but at the end of the day people do what they are personally motivated to do whether its legal or not.
Also when people talk about the first amendment only applying to the government, that includes private parties acting on behalf of the government(state actors) If the government coerces, encourages or influences or if the government is perversely intertwined with the leadership of the company, then that company is a state actor, and first amendment(and all other civil rights) apply. Given that the government is so intertwined in business that we basically have a palace economy it's pretty easy to argue that most companies are state actors
Re Divorce, all divorces involve a marriage…
22:32 I'm old enough to remember when "memes" were called "image macros"
I remember them as "demotivationals".
For a while people were calling them “may-may’s” Glad I don’t live in that universe.
I hope the one about that part of the brain developing until age 25 is mentioned. “Peaking” would be a better word to use, because it emphasises that it’s all downhill from there 😂
That is an average, not the set norm. Recent studies show that many factors affect the brains development, trauma being a big one, dr*gs and Alc*hol being another.
It easy for us to understand a number like 25 years old, but no two people are gonna be the same.
In regards to the US education system the US Universities and private schools are often really good but the actual education system (public) is horribly underfunded which is why the inner city and people with lower income tend to suffer because their forced to use a system not built to support them. This is the case with many things in America where largely the success in one area is built off of the suffering of others. For instance workers rights (especially unions) are often dismissed as unimportant or outright demonised which is why so many companies working in the US have the success that they do because they control so much of their employees lives through threat of unemployment and losing Health Insurance and other benefits.
It's not primarily a funding issue, it's a structural issue. Tenure is particular results in excessive pressure to conform early, and the school is stuck with the real person after it kicks in, for better or worse. Even school districts that have a large number of applicants for teaching positions can't get rid of the bad teachers, because unless it is something extremely serious they are not allowed to. This is why you get teachers that behave in ways no other occupation would consider acceptable. And precisely because of this, they don't want to quit a job they are burned out on: they have become accustomed to unprofessional behavior.
Now, of course, increasing pay will increase applicants. But that won't mean a thing if tenure means districts have to play these guessing games with whom they are hiring and be stuck with it after. It is, however, something that needs addressing down the road, but right now even places with dozens, or even over a hundred applicants are stuck with awful teachers.
In fact, prostate cancer has a worse pronostic compared to breast cancer.
Yea but men… ew.
@@johnserosanguineous1886Yeah, that's the problem. We have condition the idea that woman always have it worst.
In truth, an issue is an issue. Weather it physical or mental, they don't go away because someone else has it worst.
And comparing our issues and bringing up how other people suffer from them only makes us feel worst for having any problem to begin with.
If I have to hear about the McDonald's lawsuit thing one more gd time, I'm gonna flip my lid. If you had to say a pledge of allegiance to get into the reddit app, it would be reciting the details of that lawsuit
y = mx + b
It's y = mx + c
@@vegitosaysalright2365 proving the titles point
@@notsinn. Oh yeah. Where did you even get y = mx + b
@@vegitosaysalright2365 the united states. y = mx + c is a UK thing. + b is a US thing.
In my country its y = kx + d xd
" *Online games cant be paused* "
“Only 5 percent of the ocean is explored”
YURIO ON THE THUMBNAIL!!
Who?
IKR
I was scrolling through to see if anyone else recognized him!
I SAW THAT TOO!!
my mom had breast cancer twice. the first time you could barely call it cancer since it was the size of two grains of rice and stage 0. her doc said is it had been 5 years earlier they would not have caught it. (thanks to NASA imagining technology). second time, it looked like a spec of dust so small the first monogram tech didn't catch it. this time it was close to a lymph node so 1 month radiation was done.
Yeah, every time I read that "statistic" that "more people than ever are dying of cancer!" I cringe. All that means is that more people are NOT dying of anything that is NOT cancer. In fact *100% of people WILL die of Cancer!* ... (who do not pass from some other cause first).
Murphey's Law, "Everything that can go wrong will go wrong" is a phrase I think a lot of people misinterpret just because they interpret it too literally. It's meant to be a warning not to forget about the possibility of certain things happening, even if they seem unlikely given the current situation, because, just because an issue isn't likely to occur, that doesn't mean it won't.
Ironically, Murphey's Law is misinterpreted because it was phrased ambiguously, under the assumption most people would simply understand it. Meaning Murphey's Law has fallen victim to Murphey's Law.
Letting dangerous people into your house isnt a good idea. Nor is it with borders.
most times causation is not correlation but you can make a pretty convincing argument when you have all the facts and someone else who doesn't just listens it can sound like the truth.
The second law of thermodynamics is about energy distribution, not necessarily disorder. Describing it as disorder is good for explaining it to younger teenagers and for getting a feel for what systems have greater entropy.
A lot of these answers don’t exactly answer the questions.
I was born in the wrong time
I would totally have been a space pirate
I use 10% of my brain in the same way I use 1-3% of my keyboard.
"It's not the voltage that kills you, it's the current."
Same with breast cancer. We've increased early detection, but women aren't living longer, they're living the same amount of time, but knowing they have cancer for a longer time.
8:07 the lady was trying to add sugar to the coffee at a table, if I recall correctly. One slip up spilled it on her, and it was dangerously overheated. If the coffee was at a reasonable temperature, she wouldn’t have received injuries of that severity. This case is used legitimately in law schools. It was a lady who originally just wanted her hospital bills paid.
People have agrued with me about birds being dinosaurs...
Like.. they don't believe me lol
Biological fitness simply means "able to produce viable children." It has nothing to do with strength, intelligence, self-sufficiency, etc.
The most interesting takeaway points from the video:
Positive Reinforcement: Addition of a pleasant stimuli to increase likelihood of behaviours
Negative Reinforcement: Removal of negative stimuli to increase likelihood of behaviours
Positive Punishment: Addition of unpleasant stimuli to decrease likelihood of behaviours
Negative Punishment: Removal of pleasant stimuli to decrease likelihood of behaviour
The advertised % effectiveness of contraceptives (e.g. 97% effective) is not based on a single instance of use. Instead, it is based on regular use over a year (i.e. 3% chance of failure over the course of a year)
The McDonalds hot coffee lawsuit actually isn't as unreasonable as appears at face value.
The force of gravity while in orbit around Earth, is almost the same as on the surface of Earth. However, Astronauts don't feel this gravity they are in continuous freefall while moving at a sufficiently high speed perpendicular to Earth to be in orbit (if they weren't, they would simply fall to Earth due to gravity).
Venting frustrations is effective at making you feel better because the act of vocalising creates new memories that creates additional exposure to the frustration, and allows for the brain to more easily process the memory. The increased exposure to a stress producing stimulus reduces your body's sensitivity to it, ultimately resulting in a reduction in anxiety.
Low life expectancy in the past is principally a result of high infant mortality. That is, in the past, it was not anomalous for people to live to old age (most people were not dead by 30) - instead, high infant mortality drags the average age of people down significantly.
The common correction to the "only 10% of the brain is used" myth (i.e. that this statement is missing the caveat "at any given time", and that over time, the entire time gets used) is also incorrect. Neurons across the entirety of the brain are always in use.
When you see an article saying something like "thing gives you a 50% increase in the likelihood of cancer," doesn't mean you have a 50% chance of getting cancer from using the thing it means if your chances were 1% before they are now 1.5%.
4:02 The body is made of solids, liquids, and everything in-between! And it contains lots of gasses.
The 10% thing has a bit of the why understood, and it's another public misconception thing from when neuroscience was new-ish.
Specifically, we only understood how about 10% of the brain worked, and charted activity only in the parts we could comprehend, so laypeople thought that the 10% we were focusing on were the only parts in use (which is just as frustrating as it sounds, and leads to stuff like the 10% myth).
Imagine a similar misconception with the ocean, like "we've only explored 20% of the ocean" (not a real fact, do not quote me on this) getting misconstrued to mean "only 20% of the ocean has anything in it".
No im pretty sure that the 20% of the ocean thing is correct, its gotten a bit higher of corse but in general that assumption is kind of true but even by your logic we have only found 1/5 to 1/ of the ‘stuff’ in the ocean
@@i.k5696it was just an example 😅😅
He said not to quote it 😊
But I heard the 10% thing was about brain mass (like 10% is the neurons and 90% something else), but not sure if this was another false misunderstanding 🤣
Anyway, it's sort of cool, how no one seems to know what it is/was supposed to mean, and every knows it's wrong 😂
Everything is a liquid, if it's at a high enough temperature.
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Light 'behaves' like a wave and a particle, and can seemingly retroactively solve for situational imperatives, but it is not definitively and unquestionably both things at once. The Double Slit saga is amazing for demonstrating behaviours which appear paradoxical (to our intuitions), but it does not conclusively prove that photons (or any other sub or elementary atoms) are exactly two forms in the same moment. Alternating context collapse per Planck-tick for example, could produce apparent duality. We deal with photons as wave-particles because we lack both theoretical and actual apparatus to experiment at a magnitude of granularity befitting the absolute smallest possible meaningful measurement of space or time. The Uncertainty Principle is also only functionally helpful to an extent when describing phenomena like wave function collapse because it can only appreciably contribute to one data domain per measurement. What we need is some manner of Certainty Principle which CAN describe both velocity and position, however, due to the likelihood of encountering mutually exclusive properties in such a theory, there will likely be some other data integrity which much be sacrificed to allow a legible result to emerge. All working theories may one day be augmented by data we do not yet understand, so it is important not to speak of incompletely understood principles as if SigmaN secure.
What does it mean "nobody"? There will always be someone who actually understands the topic
Kinda niche but in Christian theology, "Once saved, always saved". A lot of people think it means you can go to church and respond to the gospel message by raising your hand or coming to the front or praying the prayer after the pastor and then even if you leave and start living in all sorts of sin you're still saved. But that's not what it's supposed to mean. It's supposed to mean that if you are truly saved by grace, then you will continue improving in righteousness and ongoingly repent of sin. God saved you when you became a Christian and that salvation continues to affect you and change you throughout your life to become more and more like Christ. If you instead walk away, deconstruct, deconvert, live in sin more and more, you're showing that you weren't saved by God in the first place. Though there are some who do that and then repent and start growing in faith and righteousness. In that latter case, maybe the person was indeed saved at that point but God allowed them to get worse so they would get better. Kinda like hitting rock bottom.
In any case that's commonly misunderstood in Christian circles.
Forgiven does not mean excused. A debt paid doesn't cease to exist entirely, it has been repaid.
That thing about being printed in the newspaper versus the Internet? Seth McFarland was on Bill Mahr's show complaining about comment sections on news articles and preferring that everyone write letters to the editor. He prefers that it take days to respond, with an editor choosing which letter to run and what parts of the letter to include. That's freedom, apparently, in Seth's world.
2:30 - That is not weakness. That is life.
That "10% of your brain" thing reminds me: that's supposed to be the superpower of Slade Wilson, Deathstroke the Terminator, in DC Comics. He uses 100% of his brain and thus he has lightning fast skills. But if you're trying to make a fajita, what good is it for your brain to be accessing memories of that time your aunt asked you to paint the door on her shed, and how to do the backstroke, and the muscle memory for pulling the ripcord on your parachute, and all the names of all the pets you ever owned, and...
Protestants don't beleive in Immaculate Conception (and in fact consider it Heresy) because if Mary was perfect, then that means humans can acheive Grace WITHOUT Jesus and his Crucifixion was a waste of time and effort.
Also, if Jesus couldn’t be born sinless without Mary being born sinless, how was Mary born sinless? And if it was God that made Mary be born sinless, why did He need to do that if He could just make Jesus sinless? It just seems like several unnecessary steps.
The Catholic explanation is that, for Jesus to be born sinless, Mary had to be sinless. So Mary is considered to have been born sinless because, in the future, she would conceive Jesus and that act is so good and holy that it retroactively rendered her sinless at birth. But that's not exactly the kind of holy act that just *everyone* can do to absolve original sin and that's why Jesus's sacrifice was still necessary.
That oil is made from fossils. No, that does *not* mean it's made from dead dinosaurs - rather, it's actually fossilised bacteria. Granted, it's not impossible that those bacteria could have resided in dinosaur guts, but still - it's not the dinosaurs themselves.
Ofc test scores have been going up. If you consistently make them easier every year it is bound to happen.
For those that don't know: Whenever someone says "they read at the 5th level" just remember that the standards for the 5th in 2022 were the same as the standards for the 9th in 2010...
I may be getting the percentages a bit wrong because I'm not good with remembering numbers, but my older sibling did the math one time. Since, 50% of marages end in divorce and 15% of those people get remarried, that would mean 7.5% of those people get divorced then remarried to the same person. I don't know if those nbers are exactly correct, but it's interesting to think about.
I think that might be around 8%, if you mean Stockholm syndrome, the average percentage of it happening is 8%, not sure though
@@meow_meow_J No, I mean the people.who were still in love and got married to eachother again after they divorced, but o still don't know if the percentages are right or not.
Minecraft cave update dia mining:
they decreased rate of exposed diamonds, but due to the sheer vastness of caves, the overall rarity of diamonds and the durability of deepslate it is still far more efficient to go caving than stripmining
I remember my mom saying "it's easier to boil cold water than warm water". I believe she was told that the hotter it gets, the more energy it takes to heat it further and completely misunderstood that.
Isnt the thumbnail a chibi of yurio
It isssss
Most people don't understand that frozen just means too cold to be molten... ie, something doesn't have to be cold to touch to be considered frozen.
That copper penny you're holding is frozen copper.
Simlarly, that glass of water contains molten dihydrogen monoxide.
"Correlation does not imply causation." It's true, but in a lot of situations correlations warrant further investigation. eg: The apparent correlation between smoking and increased likelihood of lung disease lead researchers to discover the carcinogenic effects of certain compounds in cigarettes.
2:57 I LITERALLY HAVE AN EXAM ABOUT THAT TOMORROW AHAHAH what were the odds
What’s the song playing in the background?
8:30 What the heck is a strong consumer protection law and why isn't that a thing in the U.S?
16:48 So... how come no-one ever brings up Australia's education system?
Dinosaurs aren’t the ancestors of birds necessarily. The classification term “dinosauria” involves all non-avian and avian dinosaurs (t-Rex is the former, while a chicken is the latter). One cannot evolve out of their ancestry, so they are all dinosaurs. However, the modern birds have evolved an additional classification as “neonaves” meaning “new bird”.
Think of it like one of those russian nesting dolls. Dinosaur is the big doll, while neonaves is the smaller, more specific term. It envelopes birds among other animals that we’d consider “dinosaurs” in media-except dimetrodon, a stem-mammal
Just like how we are classified as great apes, but we were never chimpanzees. A chimpanzee is a modern animal, and we evolved from a common ancestor to be what we are today. Both chimps and humans are apes, but modern animals don’t evolve from each other without some crazy stuff going on.
"America for the Americans" was originaly about countries from the Americas dismissing European Colonialism, not about not about not accepting Latin American immigrants
abou contraceptives I have add something.
there is "perfect use" and "normal use".
perfect use is just calculated and not possible and normal use is when human is added to equation.
while perfect use (which is impossible) for condoms, chance of pregnancy is 97% but with normal use it's 15%.
hormonal birth control has perfect use 1% chance but normal use about 7-8%. and it doesn't differ if its patch, capsule, pills or iud. plenty things going on in our body that can weaken the effect and nothing we can do.
I think best normal use rate is with copper iud which is 5% (vasectomy has 0.1% and sterilization 0.3%)
@abigmonkeyforme it's done only for medical reasons. It has side effects.
So it's not really a method people can consider
But correct you are, with that its 0%
"It's not the voltage that kills, it's the amps". It's like saying the height of the fall doesn't matter, only how hard you hit the ground.
The sheer number of times I've told my mom that the red stuff from a rare steak is protein and not blood is insane. The sheer number of times she refuses to believe me is mentally damaging....
A 3-7% global increase in anything is pretty prolific.
11:20 I've never even HEARD about this. Can someone explain further?
Basically, in order for Jesus to be born sinless, Mary had to be sinless. But if God could already just arbitrarily make people sinless, then what's the point of having Jesus do the whole "dying for your sins" thing? So the Catholics decided that birthing the savior, Jesus, was such a good and holy act that it _retroactively made Mary born sinless._ That's the basic gist of IC.
Oh shit!! “Hooch is crazy”!!!! Shout out to the fellow Scrubs fan!!!
Jokes on that guy I'm using 100% of my brain bc it's only 1 brain cell
14:00 as per string/supermembrane theory ALL particles are waves.
Murphy’s law. It’s a military thing. If a solder can screw it up, they will screw it up.
Is that Yuri Plisetsky on the front of the vid?
it is, i noticed that too lol
For me, Murphy's law is a real phenominon in my life, not just with programming because things always seems to happen when they shouldn't. Sometimes I am even able to predict things because of it.
At my job and noone is coming in over three hours? The moment I clock out for lunch, you get 5 people coming in at once. Or when I mop the floor. It happens to often to be a coincidence.
If I am driving and I need to text something important to someone so I want to get a red light to give myself a chance? Never get a red light. Happens every single time. Same time I can manipulate my chances when in a hurry. If I am in a hurry, I hit every red light. When I am not I hit every green light. At times if I am in a hurry cause I am going to be late and I am apathetic about, I get nothing, but green lights.
It also goes great with a "too good to he true" sense. 99% of the time when I have a bad feeling about a good sitaution? It always ends up horrible even if everyone around me says "it is okay I have it and had no problems."
I have stunned people ny predicting things with absolute certainly. My coworker will say "he we got this guy coming in who has been complaining about such and such." I reply "Watch it be not what he thinks and instead literally be something else."
Turns out I was 100% correct even when the person swears up and down theu checked it.
My favorite one was when someone changed an appontment twice and I said "watch they show up 4 hours later." 4 hours later they show up.
I have even found things I was never intending to find and put them on the desk only for someone to freak out looking for that item. It happens ALOT. Like constantly.
Someone might say I am very good at predicting things like a computer or something, but I chaulk it up to newr manipulation of Murphy's Law whether my own or someone else's.
The glass thing - it's not a liquid. That much isn't too complex. At room temperature anyway, it's not a liquid - that's the usual "Ah, did you know...?" quote. It's an "amorphous solid" - a solid whose molecular structure is jumbled rather than regular, more like one would expect from liquids than a lot of solids (like metals).
In America, your constitutional rights are only enforceable vis-a-vis the government, in other countries, to a limited extent, denying someone their rights work vertically between citizens and businesses, by making denying them a criminal act. Also, in America, only people who have standing/have been harmed/affected can sue the government for relief, in other places, just about everyone has standing to sue for rights being violated, even in theory, even on behalf of someone else and even before a proposed law actually gets enacted so a political party can literally have standing to sue the government if they believe a proposed law would, if passed, harm a theoretical voter of theirs, even if they cannot exactly identify such a person - that way a court can rule that, if a law is passed, it will almost certainly immediately become unconstitutional and people can stop even trying to pass it.
"20% chance of rain" does NOT mean that there is a 1 in 5 chance that it will rain.
"20% chance of rain" means that there is a 100% chance of rain covering 20% of the forecast area.
The theory of relativity trigger me to no ends. Time doesn't stop for the passengers of a spaceship if they travel at the speed of light, because time is supposed to be distorted by the sheer energy of the travel, not frozen. In fact, you could argue that the passengers, who are the ones subjected to such energy, would age FASTER than the outside world instead of SLOWER, and because aging is linked to your body state, this could translate as them dying of thirst 2 seconds after they reached lightspeed because for their body more than 72 hours would have passed.
Biology Teacher here. The most misconception that we evolved from monkeys, that's very false. Monkeys are one of our close relatives / cousins. The closest our relatives who still exist are other Great Apes (Chimpanzee, Orangutan, Gorilla, Bonobo). So we and other apes or monkeys share common ancestor. Evolution Mechanism isn't linear like Pokemon, but branches like Family Tree
Isnt the 10% of your brain nonsense a GROSS misunderstanding of
only 10% of your brains cells are neurons?
Yeah, I understood it as you have 10% left to think with after you take away the automation mainframe for your organs and long-term memory.
@@wesleythomas7125 That's not true either. Your brain stem and cerebellum are the main controllers of your organs and they're the small parts at the back. Your cerebrum is the biggest part and does a lot of your creative thinking and then your amygdala is your emotion controller
@@vegitosaysalright2365 I stand corrected
This actually started cause years ago, there was a study on the functions of the brain and at the end of which they said that they were only able to figure out the functions for around 10% of our brain. The media took this as we only use 10% of our brain. Big difference....
@@jasongordon1449 Whether it was the thing I said, or the thing you said, or both, someone took a true statement, and subjected it to BAD reporting. I wish people cared more about the accuracy of the things they say.
14:16 The original Murphy's Law came from aircraft manufacture and repair. The character of "Murphy" was invented and used to illustrate what NOT to do, and the original quote went something like: If a part can be installed wrongly, it will be installed wrongly, some time, by some one.
Related: An apprentice aircraft mechanic used to be nicknamed a "Sprog" because they were so young and ignorant that they didn't yet know the difference between a sprocket and a cog. (In case you're curious, a sprocket drives or is driven by a chain such as on a pushbike, while a cog meshes with another cog which it either drives or is driven by. You're welcome.) 😆
I've been complaining about the "assless chaps" thing for years. "Assless chaps", otherwise known as..."chaps".
The other issue(s) with the idea that the US education system is bad is that the way we grade/the tracks we put students on are insane. In the UK, 100-70% is an A. In the US, only 100-90% is an A. Also, we expect more students to do more advanced classes than other countries do. We've got kids busting their asses at pre-calc whose previous math grades would have disqualified them from the requirement in most European countries.
21:02 If she weighs the same as a duck, she's made of wood.
Murphy's Law is, Bread falls butter side down.
"if a tornado isn't moving, it''s coming towards you"
it could also actually be not moving or going away
You wanna be the guy who finds out the hard way he was wrong?
I thought “Virginia is for lovers” was honoring the landmark Loving v. Virginia Supreme Court decision. Betcha can’t tell I overthink things.
7:15 I heard from a lawyer that you should allways exaggerate how much you want cus the judge will frequently decrease the price just because, and if you do it, it will be decreased from VERY high to what you think you should receive more or less
A lot of people think that since I'm allergic to something, I can't touch it, but realistically, I touch grass, dogs, cats, horses, trees, bushes, blue cheese(because of the mold), and pollen and dust(which are hard not to touch since it flies around).
That the Democratic party is leftwing. They are the American leftwing party, but by the standards of the rest of the world, they would be considered moderate rightwing leaning.
No, that's a lie. The Democrats lIterally set the standard for what is "left wing" in this world; nearly all other leftist nations have copied their example. They have never been moderate or right wing and never will be. They are extremely leftist.
You'd be hard pressed to find anyone that misunderstands that.
Why do we give a shit what the rest of the world thinks in this context? I could easily say the Tory’s are leftwing… by US standards.
@@101jirMaybe outside the US, but in America, there are a lot of people who think the Democratic party is left wing and the Republican party is either a right wing mirror or more moderate. They don't realize that American parties don't perfectly straddle a line between opposite ideologies, but are both right wing in the terms of political thought.
There are also a lot of people who will use the term "liberal" and assume it means "politically left".
@michaelgagnon1516 Inside the US the terms are used interchangeably. But most people in the US have access to the internet, and the internet as a whole tends to drive home that point ad nauseum.
Also, the point isn't completely fair. No we don't allow parents to kill their own kids up to 12 yo like Denmark. No we don't consider communism as seriously as Europe does. And most Americans would scream over the level of authoritarianism much of Europe is comfortable with. Legalization of beastiality like Spain is off the table."Left wing" is often poorly defined, and the political landscape of Europe as a whole is straight up different. What's on the table in the US is out of the question in Europe, and vice versa. To try and define "left" by European standards at all in the US is a fool's errand, and too many people buy that cliche at face value.
What if you could run 100% of the brain at all times, thats the power.
the Windy Apple
i wish that coincidence website existed honestly
The technical term for glass is semi-solid.