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i always use my unit correctly
and FIRSTly
DAMMIT!!! I was gonna say that!
+1 gg
Good thing this isn’t a graph about GraphJam users WHO use words correctly!
+1
Thank you!
You beat me to it, but seriously. +1.
You beat me to it.
-1 for the people that don’t understand that that is used correctly like that. “That” is grammatically correct for a group such as demographics.
Correct. In this case “That” is the correct word, because it’s a single group we’re talking about, not several people together, there’s a difference.
Ha!
I’ll agree with Physicists…except for that time the physicist forgot to convert from US measurement to metric measurement on a martian entry calculation and the multimillion dollar rover got destroyed
yeah, whoopsi-daisy!
That was an engineer.
Well if the US didn’t use imperial measurements the conversions wouldn’t need to be made and there would be no issues. Everything just works better with SI measurements.
The French made SI. God made the Planck Units.
One would think that Mathematicians would be 100% accurate with units of measurements. I mean, engineers and physicists usually lob off a bunch of numbers and call it rounding. Rounding my ass! 3.14159265 is as significant as, or even more so, than 3.14!
One always have to remember not to confuse precision with accuracy.
Mathematicians think about them as being Numbers; We can figure out units later.
Too true.
In fact, mathematicians just scale the units out. So they _ARE_ numbers.
you forgot 358979323. That is if you want it to be really accurate.
As a physicist I have to say that we do not lop off numbers for the sake of making it easier. It’s a concept called “significant numbers/digits” which is to say that your information is as only accurate as your least precise number. For instance if I had a scale that measured down to the 1/10,000th place but my stop watch only measured to a tenth of a second my calculations would only be as accurate to the 1/10th. You can’t add numbers to something like that. So as far as us “rounding” off, we do it because whatever our form of measurement is we have to cut down Pi to that amount to remain accurate and precise.
You forgot Han Solo. He did the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs.
Or the kid in the Pewter City gym in Pokemon–he knows you’re a million light-years from beating Brock, who is also located in the gym.
Yeah! That kid is a f*cking retard. Half the people in that game say such retarded garbage.
My favorite is still the kid when you leave PC, whose idea of a good way to challenge people to a battle is by saying, “Hi! I like shorts! They’re comfortable and easy to wear!”
When I started wearing actual shorts after several years of nothing shorter than capris, people asked me why I’d suddenly started wearing shorts. Guess what my reply was? ;P
forgeting of course that a arsec is a unit of distance not time
An* arsec.
Uh, that should say
“People WHO use units correctly”
Good thing this isn’t a graph about GraphJam criticizers who don’t read previous comments correctly!
Somewhere between “general population” and “Graphjam users” should be “science fiction writers”. I know because I am one.
*hands you a cookie*
To quote Larry Niven:
“If you have a first edition of Ringworld, hold on to that. It’s the only edition in which the Earth spins in the wrong direction.”
Frankly, I think Niven’s error isn’t nearly as bad as some I’ve seen. If you’re going to write a novel, you should know your subject. Nothing is more frustrating than realizing that the author has no clue what he’s actually talking about. (For example, John Ringo’s description of various Pagan religions in “Princess of Wands” was over-simplified and inaccurate, and there is a series of vampire-hunter novels about an 18th-century heiress who gains the power to fight the undead from a navel piercing.)
that’s exactly what i thought about when i read twilght.
“Shuttle was going 12 times the speed of light.”
Nice how this is in percentages anyway, lol.
The percentages are right.
I.e.: “95% of all physicists use units correctly”. That wouldn’t mean that there are only 5% left for the rest of all people…
I read it as “percentage of people that use units correctly” so it should add up to 100%. i.e. “only 5% of people that use units correctly are GraphJam users” but it’s up to interpretation I guess.
I think bla has the right of it.
bla is correct. If we were looking for sum to one, it would be expressed in a pie chart.
But I’m a biologist AND a graphjam user! Where does that put me?
Probably as part of that 5% of people who know proper units.
You forgot chemists, who use units 100% correctly.
Also, physicists use correct units far more often than 95% of the time…If 1 out of 20 measurements were incorrect we’d still be in the industrial age.
Hey, the industrial age rocked!
I’m a chemist myself, and unfortunately I have to disappoint you: Chemist do not use units 100% correctly, although I would admit it is close. One of the ways chemists do not use units correctly is not defining them precisely. Take a mixture of ethanol and water which is “40%” ethanol for instance. What does that mean? Percent by weight, by volume or …? Volume % is especially tricky, since mixing 40 ml of ethanol with 60 ml of water will NOT give you 100 ml of mixture, but closer to 97-98 ml (depending on the temperature). But I’m digressing…
There are standards set forth for percentages (e.g. conc. HCl is ~37–38% and implied to be mass %), but in my experience they aren’t always followed (and often I’m not familiar with all the standards). As an organic chemist I have to say I prefer mole percents (provided the identify of the compound is known, of course).
Why would biologists use units correctly? What units do they use?
Bodily fluid measurements, maybe? I think they were going for Chemists.
You forgot NASA. They get it right about 90% of the time. The rest of the time the probe crashes into Mars.
PS. You said “unit.”
Yeah. Is it wrong that I read this and immediately wondered where I could go pick up a physicist?
Lots of people said “unit”. Multiple LOL.
Yay Physicists! We’ve finally gotten pop-culturey credit for SOMETHING other than being nerds
Mathematicians? Bollocks. They do *everything* correctly.
Actually, as this math-degree-holder can attest, there are three kinds of mathematicians: Those who can count, and those who can’t.
LOL!
Graph should have gone up to 120%, as most do on GraphJam.
Would you say that measuring time in metres and distance in MeV is the correct use of units? (Now, let c = ℏ = 1…)
It’s all relative.
Physicists FTW! Stick THAT in your calculator and smoke it…
LOL to this graph. i would love to believe that whomever made it used the grammar incorrectly on purpose… for irony? sort of like how fox news was on in the uber-liberal bar i was at last night?
Oh, don’t abuse the poor “whom.” It’s a direct object, not a subject!
I like how you post a graph… on graphjam… showing that graphjam users are stupid.
o_o
i think the labels at the bottom should be reversed
Think about it before you talk smack about Biologists.
The last column must be: physicists in front of a TV camera