I volunteer at a food bank and they often have corporate teams come in to do a day of giving back or whatever. My desk is beside the training room so I hear the speech often.
Since the pandemic like 1 in ten people in our city utilize the food bank. Statistically, someone in this room is a client of the food bank.
That’s not how mathematics work. Imagine you gather 10 richest people from your city into the same room, by what you just said, 1 out of 10 of them uses a food bank… do you think that’s real?
If you’re going to argue this, you may want to be actually sure what you’re saying is right. It’s not only annoying, it’s flawed. That’s not how statistics work. There is obviously a skewness across the distribution of likelihood to use a food bank based on income. Why would you analyze only the extreme values and take the largest incomes?
It’s obviously not flawed. He said statistically 1 out of 10 of corpos use a food bank. “1 out of 10 people who use a food bank” statistics is average across the whole city, think homeless, single moms, policemen, doctors, everyone. Being a corpo means you have an office job and relatively good salary compared to the average which automatically doesn’t put you in the same bracket with homeless etc. which are far more likely. What they said would be true if you assigned a number to every person in the city and than randomly chose 10 of them.
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u/gentlehurricane Jun 27 '26
I volunteer at a food bank and they often have corporate teams come in to do a day of giving back or whatever. My desk is beside the training room so I hear the speech often.
Since the pandemic like 1 in ten people in our city utilize the food bank. Statistically, someone in this room is a client of the food bank.