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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.

This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?

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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

That's how statistics work. You take a sample and abstract it to the population. If you required every one to be checked, then no numbers of any sort would be made up because that's too much work.

[–] CosmicCleric@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

That’s how statistics work. You take a sample and abstract it to the population. If you required every one to be checked, then no numbers of any sort would be made up because that’s too much work.

Yeah sure, I'm aware of how statistics work. I'm just not confident that they are interpreting the statistics correctly.