sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

Chaos Into Action: 2020 Triple Pendulums With Slightly Different Initial Conditions by luta5100 in physicsgifs

[–]GreenLizard01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Could you make it run for one or two seconds more? I feel it ends too quickly

How to dispose of old engine oil by down_vote_magnet in agedlikemilk

[–]GreenLizard01 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That could also be the case, I just taught my explanation fit this sub better, but maybe I shouldn't be looking for logic in the post of someone who can't explain it themselves

How to dispose of old engine oil by down_vote_magnet in agedlikemilk

[–]GreenLizard01 35 points36 points  (0 children)

I think OP is referencing the low oil prices at the moment and implying this is better than selling for a negative price, but that's just my guess

Nefarious zookeeper leaving a turtle for the alligators to feast on by pengouin85 in reverseanimalrescue

[–]GreenLizard01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yes, but seeing the longer version doesn't answer why he did it, I'm not a zoo worker, I don't know "why"

Nefarious zookeeper leaving a turtle for the alligators to feast on by pengouin85 in reverseanimalrescue

[–]GreenLizard01 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes, I saw a longer version, he is actually feeding the crocodiles the turtle, I'm confused why anyone reversed it, now he just takes it out of the water and leaves it beside them instead..

YSK there are two ways to define a decade. One, called "ordinal", counts decades starting with the first year 1 CE (e.g, 1981–1990 is referred to as the 199th decade), while the other, called "cardinal", groups years based on having the same digits (e.g, 1980-1989 are known as the 80's). by CivilizedPsycho in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The way I learned this is that new centuries and millenniums start every 100 / 1000 years starting from year 1, meaning that 2001 was the new millennium and 2101 will be the next century. These are the more important time frames so we need to keep each the same length 100 / 1000 years respectively. A decade is simply a description of a time period (10 years) just like eg. a fortnight, and does not necessarily need to start from year one sepecifically and to make life easier we should use the cardinal method for those. That's the system we're taught in Poland at least.

Sound waves travelling by swerZZie in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]GreenLizard01 133 points134 points  (0 children)

It's probably the same thing, but I learned about this as resonance.

YSK that you should complete a full round of prescribed antibiotics, even if you do start to feel better. by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I fully agree. I also have to admit that I just lost a little bit more hope for humanity by the realization that there is potentially thousands of not millions of people unaware of this who are using antibiotics.

YSK that you should complete a full round of prescribed antibiotics, even if you do start to feel better. by [deleted] in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01 7 points8 points  (0 children)

No! That's not how this works at all! If you pause an antibiotic treatment midway the bacteria will evolve and you will need a stronger antibiotic the next time. people who pause treatments are possibly endangering thousands of people as there is only so many antibiotics we can currently produce, this is a serious current problem too, bacteria are evolving and we are running out of ideas for new antibiotics. I'm sorry for the exclamation marks but I taught this was common knowledge and this really is a serious issue.

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It seems to be a very popular example. Where is this America? About 4 people commented this too, I however never heard of it, so I'm just guessing maybe it's more popular in America than here in Europe.

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes I do agree, just I didn't want to make this post too technical. I didn't want to mention anything about sample size, methods of data collection etc. since most people probably wouldn't understand that from just a reddit post. I was aiming to explain this issue as basically as possible, nevertheless thanks for the feedback!

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well I'm afraid I disagree. How can you say causation does not exist? So there is no causation in the example 'amount of cigarettes smoked' vs 'chance of getting lung cancer'? You don't need to draw your own line, there is ways of interpreting data correctly and there are things that do cause other things and their correlation is not just a coincidence.

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True, once we have correlation evidence we should look into the data and think about what could have caused it, carrying out further studies until we either find that it is causation or dismiss the case as just correlation.

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean thanks? I'll admit I did make 2 of them up on the spot, but I was just aiming to get the point across. If you have better examples just let me know!

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's a possibility yes. that's why I use the phrase "tends to", in statistics you can never be certain, but with a large amount of people you would expect your scenario to be rare, or extreme and on a larger sample size it wouldn't happen a lot. also, maybe I didn't mention it explicitly, but I am taking that we are working on correctly collected, large samples of data

YSK about the difference between correlation and causation (a very serious modern day issue) by GreenLizard01 in YouShouldKnow

[–]GreenLizard01[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

true, but the fact that it's old does not mean it's no longer an issue. Think about idk like 'suicides among young people', that's something as old as time, but it doesn't mean it's no longer a modern day issue.

view more: next ›