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According to this widely cited comic strip, if you are over 30 and didn't know it, you should be ashamed.
by ASalazarMX 4mo ago
According to this widely cited comic strip, if you are over 30 and didn't know it, you should be ashamed.
- ranger_danger 4mo agoI don't think that's what it's saying at all. It explicitly says we should not be negative towards people for not knowing things.
- xboxnolifes 4mo agoThe math on the xkcd is just wrong tbh. In multiple ways.
- jaredsohn 4mo ago'Everyone over 30 knows this' is a prior assumption (it is not necessarily correct; and nothing is said about shame). The comic strip is saying if above is true, then people still have to learn at some point so on average it would be around 10k people per day. I think the math is this: For people born in a given year: 4000000/365/30 = 365 people per day but you have 30 sets of those people (those born this year, those born last year, those born two years ago, etc.) So 365 * 30 = 10950. 10k is easier to say for viral purposes.