6 in 10 Americans believe any old nonsense as long as you present it with confidence.
73% of numerical statistics go unverified
If you put a decimal in your statistic, it becomes 82.6% more believable.
71.2% of all statistics are made-up on the spot.
“You can pretty much come up with whatever quote you want and pretend someone famous said it. Nobody checks anyway.”
-Sun Tzu
“This guy is speaking straight facts”
- George Washington
And 8 in 10 Americans think HTML is a programming language.
And 5 in 10 Americans think you can parse it with regular expressions.
You can parse anything with regex, if you’re willing to give up your soul for it.
Show me the regex for the language L = a^n b^n
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They’re wrong too, although less-so.
Also, what about that last American?
I will die on the hill that HTML should be treated like a programming language.
The hyper text markup language programming language?
I absolutely agree, and luckily I think it mostly is treated as a programming language. It’s just a technicality that makes for a great joke.
I mean, technically it’s the other 2 out of 10 that are wrong…🙃
HTML, the programming language, is a practical, turing-complete[1], stack-based programming language based on HTML, the markup language. It uses elements defined in HTML, the markup language, in order to do computations.
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should!
USA > USB
I disagree. USB is superior.
If you are talking about physical size however, then yeah. USA is bigger than a single USB.
My DNA is a sexually transmitted disease
It’s cool. Those with HTML are likely never to have sex anyway.
2 out of 10 Americans believe anything off a screenshot.
7/10 Americans think a photo and a screenshot are the same thing.
