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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

the fact they think so many trans people are out and about fascists is fucking wild. plus they talk about blahaj being ran by trans people, which is true, but also ignore that the trans community on lemmy is largely here, and for very obvious reasons

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

10% trans users on lemmygrad + 30% from hexbear, assuming we have no crossover (and I don't think we have much) means 40% of our combined user base is trans (or 20 idk), WAY above world averages and way above what most instances can boast.

Compared to the lemmyverse as a whole however I'm not sure of the proportion our two instances represent, we'd have to look at active users on all relevant websites

Still waiting for blahaj to finally run a demos survey btw.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

… that’s not how percentages work

lemmygrad seems to be trans-friendly, and hexbear certainly is, but you can’t just add percentages together to get the total percentage

[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Um if it's not how they work, then how come I just did it?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago

Math is the thirteenth type of liberalism

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Two imaginary groups, one with 100 people and one with 1000. The group with 100 has 50 trans people (50%). The group with 1000 people has 500 trans people (also 50%). By your method, they would be 100% trans in total. In reality, the total would be that 550 out of 1100 are trans, again 50%.

Second round: one group is 50/100 (50%) trans and the other is 50/1000 (5%) trans. Does that mean they are 55% trans cumulatively? No, they are 9.091% trans.

idk the numbers for our instances but I imagine that it's around 25%.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

I like his method more.

We can finally complete the gay agenda by adding together groups of 100% trans people until we achieve a 100,000% group, then adding that group to the rest of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

10% x 40% = 400% trans lemmyverse. Deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just jumping in to confirm for passersby that Lemmygrad is very much trans-friendly.

Cannot help with the math.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

10% trans users on lemmygrad + 30% from hexbear, assuming we have no crossover (and I don't think we have much) means 40% of our combined user base is trans, WAY above world averages and way above what most instances can boast.

🤓 um, ackshually, it would be 20%, because sample percentages are averaged into each other when added, not counting for the actual numerical difference between the instances' userbases

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

cursed with being a data science major ooooooooooooooh

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

there there. It's okay. We can probably find some memes stupid enough to cure you of maths.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You didn't weight your averages! Such a lightweight. 🤓

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

I acknowledged it because I didn’t want to check ooooooooooooooh