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[Paragon Avenger]

remember: 6 out of 7 dwarves are not happy

and 6 out of 7 are not grumpy.
and 6 out of 7 are not sleepy.
and 6 out of 7 are not sneezy.
and 6 out of 7 are not dopey.
and 6 out of 7 are not bashful.
and 6 out of 7 are not doc.

[Twisted Toon]

7 out of 5 people are math illiterate...




;)

[Remaugen]

and 6 out of 7 are not grumpy.
and 6 out of 7 are not sleepy.
and 6 out of 7 are not sneezy.
and 6 out of 7 are not dopey.
and 6 out of 7 are not bashful.
and 6 out of 7 are not doc.

You willfully ruined his gag. . . *Sigh*

[Felderburg]

and 6 out of 7 are not sleepy.
and 6 out of 7 are not sneezy.

Because these lines were next to each other, I read 'sleezy.'

[chuckv3]

Because these lines were next to each other, I read 'sleezy.'

You're thinking of the porn version "Blow White and the 7 Midgets".

[Baaleos]

You're thinking of the porn version "Blow White and the 7 Midgets".

Young girlwoman living with seven men - What version of that story doesn't have an element of innuendo.

[Arcana]

7 out of 5 people are math illiterate...

nOe in twtyen epopel haev dlyseiax.

[Power Gamer]

nOe in twtyen epopel haev dlyseiax.

Dyslexia (meaning "difficulty with words") is a learning disability marked by difficulties in processing written language. Dyslexics typically experience problems with reading and spelling despite adequate classroom instruction, and they often they find it challenging to "sound out" and identify printed words. About 5 percent of American children suffer from dyslexia.
According to http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/myths/myth_17.cfm

Affected persons is between 5-10% of the population although some populations show as high as 17%
According to http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/answers/faq

If Autistic Learning Solutions is to be believed about 1 in 10 are affected. They state that 40 million have dyslexia but only 2 million know they they have it.
From their info http://www.austinlearningsolutions.com/blog/38-dyslexia-facts-and-statistics.html

[LaughingAlex]

One out Of ONe HUNDrED PeoPLE HAVE AUTISM.  Doesn't mean they are less intelligent than us.  Aft3r @lL, 1T J|_|s7 M3@|\|s the p3rs0N's R!G|-|t side of brain must |\/|@k3 up for a W3@K L3FT side.

[Suspicious Package]

Nearly half the people in the world are below average.

[MM3squints]

Not the SJW type (as you can tell from my posts so far), but there are some things that shouldn't be mocked. I understand it is your freedom of speech and as much as I disagree with what you say and how you say it, I will fight and die for your right to express yourself. However, people born with disabilities didn't ask for it nor were given an option. Mocking them doesn't bring aware to their condition, just gives a justification to dehumanize them, not to be treated with the dignity of human being, and to be used casually at their expense. How often do you hear online, "you did something wrong, you must be autistic, or you must have downs." Just not a good look on the person making the joke/comment or the individuals that are affected with the disability. But hey, if you want to make light of other people disability to make a point, more power to you I guess.

[LaughingAlex]

Not the SJW type (as you can tell from my posts so far), but there are some things that shouldn't be mocked. I understand it is your freedom of speech and as much as I disagree with what you say and how you say it, I will fight and die for your right to express yourself. However, people born with disabilities didn't ask for it nor were given an option. Mocking them doesn't bring aware to their condition, just gives a justification to dehumanize them, not to be treated with the dignity of human being, and to be used casually at their expense. How often do you hear online, "you did something wrong, you must be autistic, or you must have downs." Just not a good look on the person making the joke/comment or the individuals that are affected with the disability. But hey, if you want to make light of other people disability to make a point, more power to you I guess.

Wish I could give a like to this here.  Some of the worlds most renowned artists are autistic.

.....And every character of mine in Fallout 4(or nearly every) has idiot savant!

[Felderburg]

Nearly half the people in the world are below average.

Actually, there is a difference between median and mode (average). http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/20/nearly-everyone-is-above-average/

[Taceus Jiwede]

Not the SJW type (as you can tell from my posts so far), but there are some things that shouldn't be mocked. I understand it is your freedom of speech and as much as I disagree with what you say and how you say it, I will fight and die for your right to express yourself. However, people born with disabilities didn't ask for it nor were given an option. Mocking them doesn't bring aware to their condition, just gives a justification to dehumanize them, not to be treated with the dignity of human being, and to be used casually at their expense. How often do you hear online, "you did something wrong, you must be autistic, or you must have downs." Just not a good look on the person making the joke/comment or the individuals that are affected with the disability. But hey, if you want to make light of other people disability to make a point, more power to you I guess.

Ya I agree the LD jokes seem a bit under the belt.  I'm not gonna say I don't make offensive jokes on a daily basis.  But I dunno, LD?  Seems cheap. 

[Arcana]

Ya I agree the LD jokes seem a bit under the belt.  I'm not gonna say I don't make offensive jokes on a daily basis.  But I dunno, LD?  Seems cheap.

Actually, I think everything should be fair game for humor, or nothing should be.  The primary thing to avoid is explicit meanness. 

In any event, I was trying to be a bit educational in my humor.  Dyslexia is often caricaturized simplistically, using things like word reversal games.  In fact, the core problem with dyslexics in terms of the ability to handle written words appears to be an inability to properly sequentialize and hierarchically organize information.  Reading is a more complex activity than most people realize, and eyes and brains do not capture and process information in a simple linear manner.  The problem appears to be that in most people the brain learns to take in the letters on the page and quickly extract hierarchical language processing information: letters get grouped into syllabic sequences, syllables into words, words into phrases, and phrases into sentences, and it happens automatically.  In dyslexics, that automatic processing doesn't happen or doesn't happen efficiently.

Most people joke about dyslexia in terms of word reversal, but in serious cases the problem often manifests as letter scramble.  The eyes see the letters individually but they do not coalesce into words.  Instead as the eye scans back and forth across the word to try to figure out what it is, all the brain sees is a somewhat random set of letters processed out of order.  There are other language processing problems that dyslexics face, but this can be a critical impediment to written language.

I'm someone who's been a teacher literally my entire life.  I was sitting in the back of the class helping the slow and shy kids when I was in kindergarten.  I think learning is pretty much the most important thing you can do outside of becoming Batman, and I think everyone has some potential to learn.  You just have to crack the puzzle of how to get the information to them in a way they can digest.  Conditions like autism and dyslexia are just one end of a long spectrum of capability, and most people have at least some struggle with learning in some areas.  I also think anyone who thinks they are superior enough to someone else to shame their lack of intellectual capacity should step forward and see where they fall on Arcana's scale of one to a hundred, and see if they can crack the mid teens before they think about putting anyone else on the slow bus.

But I also think people with learning difficulties are people just like us, and should be included in everything we find acceptable for the rest of us.  As long as we recognize at the end of the day that the line that gets drawn is also no different than what we would want and expect for any other of us.

[Minotaur]

remember: 6 out of 7 dwarves are not happy

Remember 74.9% of all statistics are completely made up.

[Arcana]

Remember 74.9% of all statistics are completely made up.

97.36% of all quantities are also over-precise.

A lot of people intuitively rebel at the concept of finite precision.  Take for example the quoted "normal" temperature of the human body: 98.6 degrees.  Setting aside the fact that quantity has actual medical issues, there's a more mathematical problem with it: it is over-precise.  We should be quoting "99 degrees" and not "98.6 degrees."  Why?  Because the original study that generated that number in the first place was done in the metric system, as all science is done in now and most was done even back then.  The value was determined to be 37 degrees C.  Not "37.0 degrees C" just 37 degrees C.  That was the limit of precision of that study given his limited (if sizeable) sample size and the limits of the precision of his equipment at the time.  If you do the math, 37 degrees C = 98.6 degrees F.

Except 98.6 implies we know that number to the nearest tenth of a degree.  37 degrees C mathematically translates to 98.6 degrees F but scientifically it translates to 99 degrees F within precision limits.  But there will always be people who believe that the "correct" value here is 98.6, because 98.6 "accurately" represents the same value as 37 C.  They are in a sense right, but in a more important sense wrong.

[Twisted Toon]

If my body temperature was 97.5 would I round up or down?

[Felderburg]

Speaking of dyslexia, someone made a site that simulates it: http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea?utm

[Biz]

Speaking of dyslexia, someone made a site that simulates it: http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea?utm

That's the fastest way to a headache I've ever seen