What would be some fact that, while true, could be told in a context or way that is misinfomating or make the other person draw incorrect conclusions?
People on HRT have a significantly higher mortality rate than people not on HRT
I don’t get it… I dumb.
HRT is short for Hormone Replacement Therapy, a treatment many transgender people use to feel more aligned with their gender identity. It’s been proven to increase mental health, and has a low regret rate. However, it is correlated with higher mortality because trans people overall have a higher mortality rate and HRT is primarily used by trans people.
A more extreme example of the same thing would be “People on chemotherapy have a higher chance of dying from cancer than people not on chemotherapy.” It’s true, but only because people without cancer don’t tend to enter chemotherapy.
Trans people on HRT may have a slightly higher mortality rate (the suicide rate declines significantly with HRT), but OPs statement is true because most people on HRT are cisgender and old - estrogen is a common treatment for menopause symptoms and products like androgel are specifically marketed to cis men with age related decline in testosterone.
My bad, I didn’t know HRT was a term used outside of transgender healthcare. Thank you for the info!
HRT was originally used to treat menopausal women at risk for osteoporosis, who are at higher risk due to being old.
I’m aware that transgenders also have a higher than otherwise expected mortality (whether taking hormones or not), but they may not be numerous enough to move the needle against millions of old women.
This one is great, I absolutely believe that conservatives would (and I’m sure do) pass it around like some profound statement.
In a similar vein, people on puberty blockers have a higher mortality rate.
(Because those medications are used in combination with other treatments to help treat certain cancers.)
I don’t think something you need to survive can be called being taken ‘recreationally’.
This is minor one, but annoys me how comnmon this is: light is made out of litle packets of energy called photons.
Here is a good video on the topic: https://youtube.com/watch?v=SDtAh9IwG-I (Too lazy didn’t watch: Light is an electromagnetc wave and is is not quantized. Only the interactions between atoms and light are quantized)
“Light propagates like a wave and interacts like a particle”
I was under the impression that electromagnetic radiation is both a wave and a particle, and it’s known as the “wave particle duality”.
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In DC they actually are moving, but it’s something like a few millimeters per hour on average
Can confirm. Traffic is awful on the Beltway.
The electrons are very much moving, even if at an incredibly slow pace of ~1cm/s. It’s just that they push the electrons ahead of them which puch the ones in front of then, etc. which makes electricity so fast.
It is however somewhat true for AC because there the electrons just get pushed back and forth 50/60 times per second, making them more or less stay in place
Well they do move, but just incredibly slowly.
https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/350612/speed-of-electrons-in-a-wire
To be fair, electrical engineers make a living by ignoring Maxwell’s equations and the real behavior of electricity (the analogy of electrons pushing each other to transmit energy is also wrong, just less wrong). At RF you can’t ignore them, and RF engineering is often known as black magic.
huh, I thought quantization of light(or energy really) came from Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
You are much more likely to die in a hospital than anywhere else.
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Wait until you hear the fatality rate for hospice residents
I would assume if you needed to be hospitalized for any reason there is already a non-trivial increase in the possibility of mortality…
I don’t think this one is true, unless you mean it a different way than I’m interpreting it.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmc1911892#:~:text=In 2003%2C a total of,%25)%20to%20534%2C714%20(20.8%25).
(This is the US)
You can see the moon from The Great Wall of China.
But the opposite is not true! At least, not with the naked eye.
The frequency with which I keep hearing this misconception repeated in popular media is boggling. Hell, I feel like I just heard it again recently in the new Star Trek.
Wearing your seatbelt increases your chances of dying from cancer.
It increases your chance of drowning, but not for the reason people usually think.
This one is great! Made me think way too much
How?
If you die from cancer you can’t die from a car wreck.
Other way around, for the purposes of this joke, but yes.
You’ll live longer.
The infamous FBI crime statistics are probably the big one
Which are you referring to? Some like murder are pretty reliable.
Half of all murders go unsolved. So even if you assume the group making up 50% of the murder arrests is impossible to wrongfully convict, they would still only make up 25% of the murders that occurred because a whole 50% of the murders are a mystery.
And it would be insane to assume murder arrests are a perfect representative sample for all of the murders that occur in the entire United States.
Some demographics have more money and are more likely to be able to hire their own lawyers and get away with murder, even if they’re guilty. Other demographics have less money and are more often forced to rely on a broken public defender system.
It’s no coincidence that black people, one of the poorer demographics, are found in over 50% of exonerations for wrongful convictions despite being a much smaller portion of the US population.
Dihydrogen Monoxide, commonly used in laundry detergent and other cleaning supplies, is also present in Subway sandwiches
They even put it into the water supply.
Evil!!
Everyone who has died has ingested dihydrogen monoxide.
FACT: 100% of people that consume Dihydrogen Monoxide die.
Wrong, a mortality of 94.5% has been shown not even close to 100%.
Maybe we can agree on “100% of people who died consumed dihydrogen monoxide beforehand”.
Except for the ones that didn’t.
Please show me the data showing the data on pre-1900s populations proving that 100% of them consumed dihydrogen monoxide. You can’t do it.
There is a greater than 5% chance that your death will be someone’s fault.
If you believe in God, it’s a 100% chance
Non-preventable deaths are about 95%.
Newer cars are designed to crush more and easier than older cars.
For anyone curious about this, it’s a safety feature. The front of a car is called the “crumple zone” — it’s designed to crumple up in an impact, which absorbs a lot of the energy and means the cabin (the place where humans are) will experience significantly lower forces.
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone
I feel like crumple is a more accurate word here
Since the invention of seatbelts there have been a larger number of serious injuries from car accidents.
This sounds like seatbelts are causing serious injury but in fact, these serious injuries used to be deaths. That statistics is never mentioned causing it to be misleading, just like they never mention how many bugles are in the car when an accident happens
human and chimp DNA is 98.8 percent the same
Still interested in how similar cow or earthworm DNA is. I’d be unsurprised to find they’re also quite high.
Pigs (98%) and bananas (60%) are often quoted examples. Not sure about worms
https://thednatests.com/how-much-dna-do-humans-share-with-other-animals/
I don’t know the exact number, but, come on! Look at those guys! They are basically hairy humans with a slightly less complex system of communication.
Yep but the point is the 1.2% represent millions of gene pairs and the ones we share are not always present or expressed in the same way. So just sharing genes doesn’t necessarily mean were the same or they do the same thing.
Yeah chimps are one of our very few (very very) distant cousins left. But i think they rip more faces off than us
In places where more storks live, you also have more babies.
After the Corona lockdowns there was an increase in infections with the common cold. Researches tried to explain how this is connected to the immune system and a lot of people now assume you have to “train” your immune system with exposure to pathogens. Or that your immune system falls out of training (like a muscle) if you stop exposing it to pathogens regularly. A potentially dangerous misunderstanding.
People often draw false conclusions from reduced information about a fact. For example: Babies who are kept in one position for hours each day over weeks or months show developmental delay. For some reason this information got shortened so much that a lot of people (in Germany at least) now assume baby seats are hurting babies backs.
“I’ll call you back as soon as I can”
Working at Lowe’s I’ve learned that I need to tell people “and that might be hours from now this job is hectic”
Add “As soon as possible” to that list as well.
Boss wants something ASAP and it probably means ithey want it very soon and not when you’re free
Some customers get so upset when I explain to them that I have a queue of other customers that I’m helping.
Like they’re offended, as if I don’t care about my job. Pisses me off, because while you’re complaining about my lack of work ethic I’m the guy at work while we’re understaffed because other people have decided not to work. I’m the guy who showed up, and I’m overloaded, and people read it as I’m lazy because it takes me a long time to get back to them.
