Justin Bateman

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@TheChelby What percentage of men between the age of 18 and 25 do you think have a PhD?

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@Funman10825207 @ShitpostRock Depends on how much you usually have to annoy your parents for 6.99$

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@tomoechie The new kid from the big city
Swagged out
Kind
They're teenagers
YU LITERALLY SAVED THEIR LIFE

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

Turns out that my manga about dudes fighting became about dudes walking down the street while the narrators comments on their butts because the author wanted to own the chuds. Thanks.

[Mel || HxH and Project Moon Era @FormerSoulKing]

I'm fucking crying look at the way he drew her in this chapter 😭😭😭 this is literally just vent art

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@DAKKADAKKA1 Golden fans bitching about a downgraded remake, the fucking nerve on these "people"

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@Johnny_Rocket6 Resorting to making shit up are we?

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@CallMeClippa Not all of us have a pornographer ex-girlfriend to help us frame every picture, sometimes they come out a little awkward unfortunately

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@CallMeClippa Keep crashing out, thanks for tanking my favorite show just so you could get attention from your daddy Dick

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@Pika_takoyaki The idea of a man who is unable to provide being loved by a woman is too unbelievable for audiences.
It's why the only examples are about friendship between men (i.e. "The Upside").

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@VitoComedy Turns out it was Riley who was being kept safe through Dick

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@benshapiro If that's what you think of her viewers, what do you think of her employers? Current or former

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@Hitchslap1 I actually have a low tolerance for literally everything else, go figure

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

"No, you don't get it. It's like dinner, but I don't know any left handed people."

[Guy @nosilverv]

I saw sufficient memes like this — dunking on exaggerating the differences between US and other cultures — that I came to believe them: Yea, we're just the same.

Then I ate with Americans and watched them use the fork with their right hand

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@eigenkirkbot @fleshsimulator Maybe the next post will work, keep trying lmao

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@VitoComedy Vito seems to run at a 4 for 99% of the time and then he wakes up one day and decides to turn the funny level up to 1 billion

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@crimsonbarista Cup with 1 ounce of water receives 7 ounces of water - overflows
Empty cup receives 8 ounces of water - does not overflow
This makes sense to MHA fans LMAO

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@_ace_defective_ The point is that she feels that way. Seeing would do very little to validate her feelings because her feelings are de-facto validated if you empathise with the character, and at worst, it could have the opposite effect

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

Hotter than a steaming pile of shit, as usual

[amen | on vacation AGAIN @amen_handle]

hot take

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

@amen_handle OMG fake ass fans be out there watching someone press X on the visual novel segments instead of going through awful dungeons for the priviledge of pressing it themselves and then dare to criticize the story smh

[Justin Bateman @JustBateman0]

Not knowing obvious shit is a sign of intelligence.

Actually, some people can't answer the breakfast question because the multitude of possible events caused by me not eating breakfast make it impossible to estimate how I would feel if I had not had breakfast.

Cope more

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

This is why IQ tests don't work too well on really smart people.

Because sorta smart people tend to give the expected answer.

And really smart people tend to point out that the question is wrong, and start arguing with the test, or trying to correct it, thereby making the test impossible to grade and annoying everyone.

The expected answer to this is 72.

Because 2*2*2 = 8 and 5*5*2 = 50, so 6*6*2 = 72.

But the (really) correct answer is "I don't know."

Because what you have is two points on a 3 dimensional graph (x,y) -> z.

z = 2*x*y is one surface that can be drawn through these two points. And I suspect it's the simplest formula for a surface that can be so drawn, although I haven't bothered to check.

But an infinite number of contiguous surfaces can be drawn in three dimensions that encompass these points (2,2,8) and (5,5,50).

Each of these surfaces can be described by its own formula. Some of them will also touch (6,6,72). But others of them will touch (6,6, {something else entirely}) instead.

This might sound really, really pedantic. But it's not.

Everyone knows that the expected answer is the simple one, but that's only on a test... a fake artificial made up problem.

When we start trying to do this in the real world, which, after all is what this "IQ" thing is actually for, then using the same kind of "IQ test thinking" can get you in trouble.

"My 3-month-old son is now TWICE as big as when he was born. He's on track to weigh 7.5 trillion pounds by age 10." -@pronounced_kyle

Fitting the simplest-formula curve, as opposed to the correct curve, makes our predictions of real-world stuff dead wrong.

So this kind of test question promotes a dangerous habit of thought.

But, Devon, I hear some of you ask, doesn't the principle of Occam's Razor demand that we fit the simplest curve?

No. No, it does not. It does not require that we select the simplest possible answer, given what we have currently seen. It requires that we prefer hypotheses that make fewer assumption to those that make more.

These are two different things entirely.

If I see one black sheep, the simplest hypothesis is that all sheep are black.

The hypothesis requiring the fewest assumptions is that at least one sheep is black on at least one side.

You will note which of these is correct.

All of this is, of course, irrelevant to questions on IQ test. But questions on an IQ test only matter as much as they are relevant to the actual universe...

Where ideas like this are very relevant indeed.