• lowleveldata@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Is that how the statistics in this poster work? Firstly, they used different source for lack of water and hunger. Which is already kind of asking for overlapping errors. Secondly, I check the “http://poverty.com” as it mentioned in the poster and the site doesn’t even mention how it get the numbers. Actually it doesn’t even mention that 8000000 number on that site. Are we supposed to take this seriously?

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      1 year ago

      I don’t know what you want to combine lack of water and food so much - general rule of thumb, you can survive 3 days without water and 3 weeks without food. They’re just different problems.

      Also, I think this is a pretty old image. I seem to remember it back during Occupy? So who even knows where the sources are or how to find them.

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        1 year ago

        Well I don’t. I just think the numbers in this image is way too fuzzy to be taken serious from the get-go. And that’s why I commented on it like it’s a bad joke, which it is.