Who’s Eating All The Spiders?

[@MinuteEarth]

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[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Much more emphasis should have been made on the mode. Even more when talking about salaries, which are way more important than imaginary spider-eaters. Neither the mean nor the median represent as accurately as the mode the situation of the *majority* of the people.

[@metal_pipe9764]

Sorry but I'm a normal person who isn't into that

[@Nylspider]

🕷:3

[@Charistum]

Sorry, I just vomited my Autism everywhere. There's even some of it on the ceiling.

[@alto7183]

Buen video, a futuro el saber altura, tipos de metabolismo de su cuerpo, mitocondrias y otras piezas celulares facilitará la edición genética para como tunear un auto saber que mover, que no mover del cuerpo, como y cuando para mejorar cuerpos humanos, mejoras genéticas grado civil usando ingeniería genética.

[@MrRoboticBrain]

My most favorite fact about statistics is that; if you have 2 legs and are a human, you have an above average amount of legs!

[@StarkRG]

But you have a below average number of heads. Assuming we're talking about living humans

[@kamille286]

My favorite is the average number of skeletons in the human body is higher than 1 because there’s always a lot of pregnant people at any given time

[@MrScorpianwarrior]

Woah. This is probably true of almost anything. I have an above average number of eyes!

[@pauselab5569]

the centipads would disagree with you...

[@smickothesmickest]

​@@MrScorpianwarrior Blind people still have eyes tho? Unless you're counting people who got their eye cut off?

[@diamondjub2318]

I love Spiders Georg, a silly joke that became a great way to teach real statistics

[@jruler93]

And also how a lot of people learned about statistical outliers.

[@Jemima1377]

Math teacher here - I've been using that meme in class for years to explain the concept of outliers - they seem to get it quite well! ^_^

[@alveolate]

it's a great way to turn a fake factoid into a statistics example... but i wasn't listening too closely and i actually thought spiders georg was a real person lmao

[@redstocat5455]

???

[@Takeawayjustin]

Very helpful since im currently studying mean medians and modus

[@VieneLea]

I presumed Spiders George is not meant to be compared with the entire population, but rather a population sample for the analysis. The researches rounded up a random group of 3500 or so people, most of whom ate 0 spiders per year, but unfortunately somehow found his way there and skewed the statistic which was then extrapolated for the general population.

[@urgay1992]

The original statistic was completely made up

[@YunxiaoChu]

lol

[@Hellooo134]

Was about to say the exact same thing

[@fruitymcfruitcake9674]

But it's so much funnier to think Spiders Georg is genuinely out here eating 8 times the human population in spiders every year, especially because that somehow means he's finding all these spiders where he lives but they're still completely outpacing him in population Though it's also pretty funny to think he left his cave and his spiders just for that one particular survey

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

⁠@@fruitymcfruitcake9674 24360000000 spiders yearly, assuming a population of 8.12 billion (estimate from worldometers) Both are hilarious. I like to imagine the spiders where he lives are the horniest spiders on the planet, too horny for even r34 artists.

[@justsomejerseydevilwithint4606]

"But she was already pouring him a brimming glass of spiders"

[@fariesz6786]

i didn't expect this comment but now that i found it i feel at home

[@jin_cotl]

“Amelia Bedelia! It’s a web of lies!” Amelia: “Sir, your web has been spun.” “NOOOOOOO”

[@wedmunds]

And he drank all of it

[@Codexionyx101]

Obligatory Spiders Georg refere- -...They're talking about that? It's actually what the whole video is about? ...Okay.

[@Vercopaanir]

Same hat.

[@helloworld2409]

its spiders georg cmon this has been solved already

[@skie6282]

Nearly 2,000 a day and still goin

[@daishoryujin95]

He’s an outlier and shouldn’t be counted.

[@tparadox88]

0:23

[@bugdracula1662]

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[@ivettrivera5306]

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[@Polygonetwo]

Even without Spiders Georg, there’s plenty of people who do eat spiders. Whether it be children doing dares, those candied spider lollipops, or exotic cuisine. Some people just like eating spiders, so a nonzero average or even a mean makes logical sense.

[@Shinntoku]

I was just thinking this too, there's plenty of people who eat spiders

[@Taubenkill0r]

Also if one counts mites into spiders, I would assume that many people accidentally consume some of those on occassion.

[@mljh11]

There may indeed be plenty of spider eaters, buuuutttt do they seriously consume enough to push the global annual average to 3/person..? Isn't it much more likely that the odd spider or two accidentally ends up in our cooked or canned food instead in the millions of kitchens and food factories worldwide?

[@thecarpking9773]

@@Taubenkill0rthen you might as well just count arachnids as a whole if you’re going to include mites for whatever reason

[@riliash]

I feel like 3 spiders per year are not super unlikely given a diet containing actual vegetables and especially salads. Of course eating a spider while sleeping is silly, but dead spiders in my Banana or whatever once every hundred days? Maybe? Also wondering if spiders in corn and wheat fields ending up in flour would win this thing single leggedly.

[@ComfortingColourlessLight]

The average person has less than two legs.

[@pixelfire86]

That's not true. The average (mean) number of legs for a person to have is less than two, but the average person (median or mode) has two legs.

[@femstora]

@@pixelfire86oh you're no fun anymore

[@beacool3538]

If you count pregnant people as having 4 legs than wouldn’t the average person have more than 2 legs?

[@gabrielsfilms2086]

@@beacool3538 ...no. shut up. just. shut.

[@EEE-1409]

Who be out there with negative 11 billion legs

[@tor-bin]

I came for Spiders Georg and was given a Scanlan cameo I was not expecting.

[@churchofmagic3733]

Critical role???

[@seallover9849]

​@@churchofmagic3733 Yes!!

[@fariesz6786]

i was looking for this comment (mostly bc i didn't remember how his name is spelt)

[@jakobchristensen4511]

I came for Spiders' place in the food chain of nature and got statistics and a Bluey cameo.

[@enterchannelname8981]

I was stunned when I saw it, I almost yelled "IS THAT SCANLAN" out loud

[@ForgottenSoma]

My favorite example of this is "most people have an above average number of arms/legs/eyes, etc.

[@mrnice4434]

Hey at least I'm "above average" in some thing.... yeah me

[@TinyGiraffes]

"I'm making a power point!" "What of?" "EATING SPIDERS"

[@robspiess]

A modest proposal, indeed.

[@alexandermcclure6185]

well, time to join spiders georg *i pull out a cup and pour a refreshing glass of spiders for every person* drink up

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@alexandermcclure6185my cup exploded. Who gave me magic laser spiders?

[@jfjedu]

Loved the video, but i have a slight disagreement: it's not that the mean "tends to be more useful in datasets where the data mostly falls around a particular peak". That dataset has a mean that is roughly the median, so the mean has the same meaning as the median. The median is almost always way more useful than the mean, and this is a particular example where they are about the same, so the mean piggy-backs on the median's utility. I would say instead that "the mean is only useful when the dataset is continuous, and not discrete". Example: mean speed * total time = distance traveled. As soon as discrete data points (like people, apples, etc) is present, the mean becomes less useful. The median will always be the most representative data point in a discrete data set, the mean will always have info about the outliers, and is unreliable without also looking at other parameters (like looking at mean and median and then you know about the outliers).

[@frantisekvrana3902]

Mean is also useful in discrete datasets for which you don't have many datapoints. If you have 100 datapoints, it's better to use median. But if you only have 10, it might be better to use mean. Of course, you have to be sure the set is normal before you use it so.

[@Nickname-hier-einfuegen]

I disagree, it simply depends on your data and what information you're trying to get across. Assume you evaluate customer satisfaction and 70% within the group are really happy, having no issues with the product, but 30% had the product critically failing. The median will be somewhere on the lower end of the happy people, but depending on the data, it might still be fairly high. (Like a rating of 7/10 or 8/10.) This would suggest that satisfaction is actually quite high, ignoring that it's very bad (like 1/10) for almost a third of the group where the thing exploded in their face. Or whatever. The mean however would be heavily influenced by 30% of the group giving a rating of 1/10. And correctly so, because those aren't just outliers, it's a large portion of the group. Another little example (not meant too serious): Your data points are 1 (phone did explode) or 0 (phone did not explode). If 49% of the phones explode, you're median is still 0. Using the median is great to sell the phone, but bad if you want to communicate the danger. My point is: Both mean and median are tools and they have their uses. And if you worry about outliers, there are completely legitimate reasons to remove them from the data set before calculating anything. Just be transparent about it.

[@jfjedu]

You are making my point. if a set is normal, the mean and median are the same. If its not, then the mean is useless compared to the median. Try to think of an example of 10 data points where the mean is more useful than the median. @@frantisekvrana3902

[@jfjedu]

You make a good point, but your point is not in favor of mean over median, or even for the mean at all. In all the examples you give, if you want something representative of the population, then the median gives more than the mean. In the example of the 70/30 split on customer satisfaction: the mean still doesn't tell you anything by itself (and neither does the median). the median is far more representative of the population, but your point that it is missing something important is very true. However, the missing piece is not the mean, its inter-quartile range (IQR) or Range, or WhiskerHigh and WhiskerLow. The discrepancy between mean and median lets you know there are outliers, but it doesn't tell you anything about them. Median + Outliers is way more info than Mean + Outliers, and outliers should be viewed from something like IQR, because that describes the shape of the data. Basically, there isn't an example of discrete data where I would use the mean (or i've never run into it).@@Nickname-hier-einfuegen

[@alia7960]

@@jfjedu Hi, I found your comments interesting. I’m not advocating for the ‘mean’ or anything, but I was just thinking. Say we had 2 discrete samples about the same thing, and the only thing we knew about them was their respective sample size and mean. We can easily calculate the mean of a new sample made from combing the previous 2. However, I don’t think we can do the same with the median, at least I can’t think of a way. Do you think this property is helpful or not? I also agree with Nickname’s point to a degree. In his example, assuming you only had either the mean or median and no other information, I feel like the mean is a better indicator. However, I agree with you that the ‘Median + IQR’ or even better ‘Median + UQ + LQ’ is a better indicator than say ‘Mean + Variance’ or ‘Mean + IQR’ (what even is that combination lol) in discrete samples.

[@kingfisherc9608]

Sorry my bad, the spiders just taste so good

[@darthmorbus2389]

This video inspired me to find out something, could Spider Georg eat 24 Billion spiders a year. Assuming all he eats are tarantulas, each weighing about 85g and providing about 76.5 calories, and him eating a pretty ridiculous 7000 calories a day (Sumo wrestler level), he would eat just over 91 spiders a day. This equates to nearly 33400 spiders a year. So in reality, there would have to be an entire tribe of Spider Georgs numbering about 718000 which is a little bit over the population of Macau. TLDR; There would have to be a Macau full of Spider Georgs for this to be nutritionally feasible.

[@nessesaryschoolthing]

But why would you assume tarantulas and not a smaller kind of spider? Isn't that going against the point of consuming more of them?

[@05Matz]

@@nessesaryschoolthingMaybe it's harder to find nutrition data on smaller spiders?

[@infinitytower8957]

The post states he eats "over 10,000" a day. There could still be only 1 Georg though, since most studies don't have all of earth as their sample size.

[@fruitymcfruitcake9674]

There is but one conclusion: He was not eating tarantulas unless it was as a snack

[@feuerling]

Tarantulas are some of the heaviest spiders out there. If you take a more normal spider that weighs a few _milligrams_ it's much more feasible.

[@jito7377]

Scanlan! I knew of the median and its purpose. But nobody could explain me how to make one and make it easy. You did today.

[@fariesz6786]

i was looking for this comment (mostly bc i didn't remember how Scanlan's name is spelt)

[@underscoredfrisk]

what does scanlan mean

[@skyem5250]

Excellent video. And while it's true that humans accidentally eating spiders is exceedingly rare, there are a few cultures that eat spiders intentionally as food. Fried tarantulas are a regional dish in Skuon, Cambodia, for example. I suspect these regions that eat spiders are pushing the mean up more than "Spiders Georg"

[@feuerling]

Also children across all cultures, because children are menaces that don't care about social norms around food and will munch a spider because a friend dared them to.

[@DeathlyTired]

Hello, HR, my colleague just bound and gagged me... twice! What do you mean you don't care... Wait! HR, what's your name? GEORG!!

[@boysenbeary]

As a 5’5” guy, I caught strays from this video 😭

[@dz7se]

That still makes you taller than Daniel Radcliffe though, so I wouldn’t worry about it too much :)

[@petersmythe6462]

Median and mode can be overly majoritarian and insensitive to outliers when they really do matter. The median and mode of gunshot wounds per capita in Reykjavik and Caracas are the same (zero), but the mean will tell you a very different story.

[@AzrgExplorers]

That's why the lesson isn't "the mean is awful, don't use it", but "be careful which statistic you use for which situation"

[@gardenhead92]

Obviously this is false, you got it reversed: the average spider eats three people per year

[@marscaleb]

Yes but that's just because of Humans George who lives in New York and eats about ten thousand humans a year. He is an outlier and should not have been included in the sample.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

⁠@@marscalebso there’s 3333 spiders in this sample?

[@aiocafea]

until the reveal i was gobsmacked i know he was well known, but i couldn't believe they were actually going to talk about Spider Georg

[@veronicamcghie5238]

I'm so glad that news reporting on wages and house prices and such only talks about the median amounts

[@CRBungalow]

There was a report done by the CEPR in 2020 that talks about average wages and how the news reports around average wages is wrong.

[@TheClaramayBelles]

Ngl just came across this channel, and I already love it 😭

[@calasurien]

Another reason why you can't take the mean of traffic, is the values not being absolute. Hours go in a cycle, so you can get different means depending on where you separate them.

[@1nk_edd]

In the original joke spiders George eats 10000 spiders a day which sounds like a lot but would be statistically insignificant with an average of 3 spiders a year

[@rantingrodent416]

I have to admit that my first reaction to "Spiders Georg" is that it was a culinary speciality somewhere that was pulling up the average in a less absurd way.

[@mrmimeisfunny]

I know in Cambodia they like eating Tarantulas because that was the only meat available during the Khmer Rouge and they developed a taste for it.

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

@@mrmimeisfunnyConclusion: Spiders Georg might be Cambodian

[@thelastxgamer]

at 1:38 the text in the top right changes to add an erroneous "talked" into the sentence, but then a few seconds later, it gets removed again

[@Hickorypaws]

Who’s eating all the spiders? My cat

[@the_real_blahaj]

It was me… sowwy

[@bobsmith-gq2vt]

Blahaj is that you?

[@Aaa-vp6ug]

How?

[@the_real_blahaj]

@@Aaa-vp6ug I was hungy :3

[@depressoespresso5904]

wasnt expecting this to actually be about spiders georg i love it

[@liuhc]

Spider Georg: that one nerdy kid in class who used JavaScript to break validation and entered 2.1B as age in school survey.

[@nicholasmackley8580]

Never heard georg out loud before, and I expected differently. Very good video tho that everybody needed thanks!!!

[@ImmortalNature777]

Was that Ithkuil writing on the presentation stage at the beginning?

[@alexandreramalho9637]

oh my god, so happy to see the evolution of quality

[@Rybread52]

I’ve been subscribed since you’ve started this channel, and I have to say this is one of my favorite videos you’ve made

[@pyropulseIXXI]

3 spiders ever year? These are rookie numbers; in my day, it was 7 spiders PER NIGHT

[@MakeVarahHappen]

I have a question: if the mean is mostly useful using an average distribution, and to find an average distribution you already need to find the mode and/or median, what actual information does the mean provide?

[@petersmythe6462]

A weighted mean is more useful than a median. For example, the actual utility of income to your life likely follows a linear trend at very low income levels before reaching some saturation point and switching to a logarithmic behavior. Similar to a greenhouse gas's concentration in the atmosphere. It would be much more relevant to people's lives to measure the mean, not of income, but rather, of log(income).

[@SpoonerTV]

What the hell... I've been subscribed to this channel from the beginning and I swear the channel hasn't been shown on my subscription feed for YEARS!! Suddenly I see it pop and I'm like "Holy shit... he's still making videos!!??"

[@Polygonetwo]

Always has been

[@guiorgy]

​@@Polygonetwo🔫🧑‍🚀

[@Ascoundrel]

they always put out 3-4 videos per month ... try re-subscribing.

[@CRBungalow]

This makes me think of something I heard long ago about how cereal is allowed so many bug parts per some cereal metric. Because there is no way to remove all the bugs from the wheat plants and they get crushed up when the wheat is harvested. So, to any Vegans get eat cereal, it's probably not vegan...

[@der.Schtefan]

I find it cute that Arcadi's minute earth Alter ego carries his "Bubblegum bitch" look.

[@robertsteel3563]

Cameron, do you need help? Wink twice for yes!

[@AcidicBanana_YT]

muffet getting rich with this one 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@thefolder3086]

Can u make a video about animal and plant dispersal ? I’ve found a lot of odd range maps over the years and maybe this could clear things up. You already talked about monkeys in America but maybe make a video on general dispersal mechanism, or a compilation of a few interesting dispersals in history

[@imagineexavier7249]

Erm actually the medium of spiders eaten is 0.5 because of camron

[@Awesum_Pawsum]

To be honest, I actually kinda like ants because they don’t eat my darn crops

[@edwardClitterhands]

I love the scanlan shorthalt reference on the men’s size chart lol

[@AlejandroGarcia-cb8hs]

Great explanation, in early grade school we learned about mean, median, and mode, but not the context in which they could representative of a data set

[@PuqiaoNing]

It’s been so long since minute earth posted, I’m so glad that they are still working new video’s for us! ❤

[@Pyr0Ben]

I've been really sick the past couple days and now everyone is talking about eating spiders and statistics and it all just feels like one huge fever dream haha please help

[@MariaMartinez-researcher]

Much more emphasis should have been made on the mode. Even more when talking about salaries, which are way more important than imaginary spider-eaters. Neither the mean nor the median represent as accurately as the mode the situation of the *majority* of the people.

[@adamwishneusky]

😆 the spider obsession at the end 🙌

[@klaus7164]

The mean driving hour is an unfortunate example, because our measurement of "time on the clock" sets an arbitrary REPEATING zero, and the result of averaging depends on where it is put. The same issue by the way arises with the phase of complex numbers (or, directly related, the phase of different signals). The comparison to the phase also brings a potential solution: Represent each data point as a phase corresponding to the time of the day (such that one 24h day makes a full 360° circle) times the number of cars at that time. Then average these complex number and interpret the time corresponding to the phase of that average as the average time. Geometrically, it corresponds to asking “what is the average direction a driver sees clock pointer pointing to” (assuming we had 24h clocks with pointers). The direction could be represented as a unit vector for each driver, summed up, and then renormalized to a unit circle. Sadly, it is also numerically unstable if the average happens to be close to zero, so again it works only if there is a strong bias in the data. But at least it removes the dependence on an arbitrary choice of the start of the day. I've come across this issue many times during my Job (usually related to Fourier transforms, given that the phase resulting from a Fourier transform depends on the arbitrary choice of "zero" time) and during my PhD (complex numbers in quantum mechanics). Bottom line: Any value that has some periodic characteristic makes it very hard to talk about an "average". One emerging problem from that is that visualizing “phase” can be tricky, if the complex number can become zero at any point. If it is only a single point, you can try to detect nearly-zero values and interpolate the phase between adjacent values, but that’s also just a bandair fix, that won’t work ALWAYS. __________________________________________________ Less related to the video, there is also often the question of "arithmetic" vs "geometric" mean. The first is the common amean(x) = 1/n ∑(j=1..n) xⱼ while the latter is gmean(x) = (∏(j=1..n) xⱼ)¹ᐟⁿ which also is the arithmetic mean of the logarithm of n, and is often more descriptive of quantities, that have no non-positive values. Especially given that we often apply logarithmic scales ("decibel") to such quantities.

[@CorruptedSpider]

0:08 Am I seeing things, or minuteearth put a bluey reference here?

[@plagueofmoths]

ooooh so this is where the georgs came from

[@Phripheoniks]

ohh Scanlan 2:08 never change

[@D4axgt]

I’m eating all of them moving to Australia soon I’m making that number go up

[@alex-726]

5:27 how do I get the 30 day free trial?

[@05degrees]

2:40 Moreso for distributions on a circle like this hourly distribution, the usual definition of the mean doesn’t even work. It can be salvaged some by treating the circle as complex numbers with unit norm, so that the mean will lie inside closed unit disk, being nearer to the border if there’s more definiteness in the data, and being in the center at 0 if the data has no preference overall (though it can be periodic and the mean would end up still zero, so it still has its usual failings).

[@MrAqr2598]

Great job, Arcadi!! We've been waiting for you to be the main speaker of another vid!! Keep it up!!!

[@d.laveyyy]

0:25 the expressionless expression reminds me of that one bean comic on tumblr lmfao.

[@darchandarchan7036]

i do remember reading that fact as a child, and i am certain that it stated that humans eat in average 8 spiders throughout their whole lifespan

[@Sabagegah]

Check out the Datasaurus Dozen, a collection of twelve radically different-looking plots with the same summary statistics. This is why I prefer data visualization.

[@bandannagang5159]

This video is so interesting!! Thanks for making it!

[@maxmorpher]

LEMMiNO made a great video about that initial "humans eating spiders in their sleep" fact, its called "The Eight Spiders" if you wanna check it out.

[@poisonedfrog]

The spider segue at the end was chef’s kiss ❤

[@TalysAlankil]

i feel so validated by the way you pronounce spider georg. thank you.

[@Ajbarili]

This was hilarious AND informative 😂 love you all

[@kemcolian2001]

as soon as i saw this vid in my notifications i immediately thought about spiders georg

[@tiffanymarie9750]

"old Tumblr memes" y'all really came for me huh

[@soltersortna]

I saw that Bluey at the beginning, sneaky animator 😂

[@wahoodotwav]

🕷🕸🎉 SPIDERS GEORG MENTIONED 🎉🕸🕷

[@adamn7409]

If you want to go into a deep rabbit hole as to WHERE the spider swallowing myth comes from, I highly recommend Lemmino’s Eight Spiders video

[@AnimeShinigami13]

Don't forget in the mountains of Papua New Guinea they eat fried tarantula on a regular basis because protein is so rare. This is the same country that practiced funerary cannibalism and developed CJD as a result. Kuru. The Shakes. THAT ONE.

[@EebstertheGreat]

Using the height example, the average height for a human is not what most of us think of as a "typical" height. It's probably less than five feet. The thing is, when we hear statistics like this, we automatically fill in the blanks for what we think the context should be. We assume, for instance, that "height" means "adult height," so we discount the billion or so children who are shorter. And even the scale for adult height has two modes: one for men and one for women. Thus, the average height is sort of a compromise and not actually the most typical.

[@JesusMartinez-rr2ry]

You forgot to consider that some cultures actually consider spiders as food. For example in Cambodia, fried tarantulas are considered a popular delicacy there. Perhaps, Arcadi looks like he would love to dine on spiders. And it should be Arcadi's turn to be bonded up.

[@Coriander1988]

Thank minute earth for spreading science and the myth of spiders georg to a new generation of meme and statistics enthusiasts

[@bowenmadden6122]

Yay, +1 spider-appreciating content!! Spiders can be scary but if you think about it, they're just little guys! And it's pretty adorable the shenanigans they get up to-being tethered to a string is cool and all, until the string starts swaying beyond your control. Having 8 legs is handy, but it's silly when you trip over them on the wall, and down you go! Spiders really don't deserve the hate; I always try to save them by taking them outside. :)

[@juliav.mcclelland2415]

Whoever created the Spiders Georg meme should be ashamed of themself. How dare they not name such a character Renfield?!

[@crackedemerald4930]

hyper realistic minute person isn't real, they can't hurt me

[@davisgoicoechea]

This intro and narrative style immediately got my sub. Love the content! 😂

[@NoahJames-wr4ld]

0:11 bluey

[@Omnywrench]

My favorite statistic is that because the Vatican City is 0.17 sq. miles in size, and both Pope Francis and former Pope Benedict XVI live there, there is an average of 11.7 Popes Per Square Mile (PPSM).

[@mishun]

1:56 "mostly falls around a particular peak" So, like your example immediately before? Or kinda like one about income immediately after?

[@thundersheild926]

No, for spiders Georg we have an outlier value that falls far, far, far away from the peak. In the traffic example, we have two peaks (aka a bimodal data set) leading to the mean once again not giving an accurate representation.

[@mishun]

​@@thundersheild926 overwhelming majority of data ponts qualifies for "mostly falls around a particular peak". Income example isn't even bimodal.

[@tonysax7464]

I love the sassiness of this video

[@2k7Bertram]

This was really really good! Loved the interactions

[@MazokuJun]

Though I must say, there are places on Earth where spider is an edible item, mostly in third world countries and there are people who just love to eat exotic food. It very likely doesn't skew the data set that much, but large tarantulas actually provides a good meal for poor people in Asia, Africa and South America.

[@Bamdeidz]

I legitimately worried whether spider eating might be a little bit true (1 spider a year? Tiny spiders?) Thank you for putting my mind at ease.

[@fierthefool8458]

I haven't even watched the video yet and I know for a fact it is Spiders Georg Edit: I hecking knew it >:)

[@stevenneiman1554]

The point of the original meme was actually a different version of distortion by outliers. If Spiders Georg actually did eat 24 billion spiders per year it actually would be proper to say that the average annual spider consumption is 3/person but it's important to remember that "average" doesn't always mean "typical". What actually happened though, is that Spiders Georg actually happened to be in a finite sample and so threw off the data by more than the true average. This is why even when you are seeking an average sometimes outliers should be discounted, because the most likely reason is that you either screwed up collecting that datapoint or by chance got one datapoint which is unusual enough to skew your whole sample. As for when a mean is useful, the other case which is important is when how things contribute to a whole rather than what's going on with the things individually. For example, if you're talking about a government's tax revenue means are useful, because in the real case you can just multiply by population to find tax revenue, and in hypothetical cases you can figure out how much a change in tax policy will affect revenue (such as the disproportionate value we could get if we taxed a reasonable fraction of income from Money Georgs). However, if you want to think about tax *burden*, it's better to look at other statistics (and probably also statistics for slices of the population) because there it matters how different individuals are affected rather than just how many dollars their tax burden adds up to.

[@Elesario]

The fun thing is that in some cultures eating spiders can be a valuable source of protein. I recall watching a documentary that mentioned impoverished children hunting down tarantulas and eating them to supplement their diet.

[@mitchjohnson4714]

I’m loving this video. Don’t get me started on the St. Petersburg Paradox.

[@ChiaraOhneLink]

That are things I learned at school and I am always shocked that not everybody knows how to look at data sets...

[@Necrikus]

Okay, but spiders (and other bugs) have been known to crawl into human ear canals. Thus, you can't use the "they are aware of you" explanation to say that a spider would not crawl into a human orifice. And if that's the case, then how could one know if a spider crawled into your mouth only to be swallowed? Unless everyone gets tested for it constantly, then you can't prove the chance of accidentally swallowing a spider isn't roughly the same as the chance of one crawling into your ear.

[@wermh3719]

Omg Arcadi, I love the character😭 Thanks for teaching math!

[@emilp6041]

That's not true. First, I have first hand experience that spiders bite people during sleep, so they don't stay away from us. Their bites leave a big white tall pimple with red edge around. The bigger the spider, the bigger the pimple. Whenever I removed a spider from my room, I'd stop getting these. Second, one time, when I was getting these pimples, I woke up with a large amount of phlegm in my throat as well as the feeling of something being in it. I swallowed it after I woke up, so I couldn't spit it out and look at it. But I stopped getting pimples.

[@queendonut1044]

I Love Your Channel & Videos

[@arefeshghi]

Brought to you by my high school's 'Statistics and Probability' teacher! :)

[@im_m3]

Definetly not me atleast, nope I don't