"average person eats 3 spiders a year" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is the AMIS. we've decided to show quantiles of the spider consumption distribution instead.
This was my friend @averyflinders idea, cowriting credit where it is due!!! #amipmemes
tumblr deep cut, real OG online folks will recognize
notice how unlike the original meme, we do NOT advocate droppping spiders georg. he is a real part of the DGP, presumably! don't drop him! but, his presence makes the sample mean unsuitable / uninteresting for our purposes, so we need to rethink the analysis in this case.
also, a halfway careful analyst will usually figure out spiders georg is there, and may trim or switch to quantiles or w/e without needing us to tell them. But in our paper we find that sometimes spiders georg looks like a normal guy. then you might need us to find him for you.
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