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[–] [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

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

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

Uhh I'm a dummy but wouldn't it be under 30% with the exact number depending on exact userbase sizes of 'grad and 'bear?