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Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Fun with stats: There are 4 people in the world. Alice, Bob, Charles and Denise Alice and Bob are happily married Charles and Denise have gotten married and divorced 4 times In this world, 80% of marriages lead to divorce

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5/25/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

Jeff Bezos moves into a small town of 100,000 people Everybody is now a millionaire, or so you might think if you look at the average (mean) networth of the town’s population

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5/25/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

John does not know how to swim. He needs to cross a river. “The river is 4 feet deep on average,” says Google. “I’m 6’1,” thinks John, “I’ll be fine!” The river is 8 feet deep in the middle. John drowns.

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5/25/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

truth 🦵 https://t.co/auCyXcViRP

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5/25/2020

Forth ❤️‍🔥@forthrighter• over 5 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv the average human has 1 ovary

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5/25/2020

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• about 3 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

a group of 5 friends follow each other on Twitter and nobody else. between them, they have a collective audience of 20 people https://t.co/m8viXybU45

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9/9/2022

actual hog@actualhog• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv This is a large town

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5/14/2023

Visakan Veerasamy@visakanv• over 2 years ago

Replying to @visakanv

“average couple 50% likely to get divorced" factoid actualy just statistical error. average couple maybe about 15% likely to get divorced. Divorced Georg, who lives in cave & divorces over 100 women each year, is an outlier adn should not have been counted https://t.co/7ImEIJJTsR

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2/5/2023

💝@kumbuchaqueen• over 1 year ago

Replying to @visakanv

@visakanv what book was it that described courting as an act of war against that kind of guy

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4/1/2024