• shastaxc@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    I think two assumptions to this whole 10k people/day metric cause it to be inaccurate pseudoscience:

    1. It assumes people learn things at random times, causing the distribution to average over 30 years.

    2. It assumes everyone learns a thing by age 30. If you talk to anyone over 80 years old I guarantee they’ll tell you they don’t know everything.

    It’s a sweet sentiment, but it bugs me how people keep quoting this like there’s any truth behind it.

    • Zink@programming.dev
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      6 months ago

      I think the spirit of the comic remains intact even if the math and assumptions are easily attacked.

      I didn’t mean for that to rhyme.