Asking over 8500 students to pick a random number from 1 to 10

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Reading the comments there I genuinely despair over the level of mathematical ignorance being shown by some of the commenters, and the scorn and lack of empathy shown by others.

There are times when I'm ashamed to be human and share a heritage with some of the people out there.

Edit: In case you're wondering what comments prompted me to say that, I'll not point at them, because it would identify the usernames, and I don't want to do that. I'll just take this as a reminder: On most forums - never read the comments.

Part of the reason I stopped making content for /r/dataisbeautiful is the vitriol for a minor/inconsequential mistake in my source chart, and no one reads the comment corrections.

The workaround is to link to a blog post instead of a raw dataviz, but no one upvotes those.

There is a name I forgot for this phenomena of "representative" random values. For occupation the representative value is "carpenter"

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