What minor thing grinds your gears atm?

[the-pi-guy]

When the speech to text understood me correctly the first time, but then it goes back and "fixes" it. 

[Legend]

When the speech to text understood me correctly the first time, but then it goes back and "fixes" it.

Oh it can be so bad.

"is there any comparison good for your hair" is absolutely not what I asked my ai the other day. It was correct but then once it heard hair instead of health, it replaced marathon with comparison and shifted the other words.

[the-pi-guy]

Oh it can be so bad.

"is there any comparison good for your hair" is absolutely not what I asked my ai the other day. It was correct but then once it heard hair instead of health, it replaced marathon with comparison and shifted the other words.

It's almost more irritating when it's correct before changing it.

I was asking YouTube to pull up a song called To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X. And I saw it type it completely correctly, only to change it something that was even more nonsensical. "2 Xanarkant Final Fantasy X"


(Which I get, that To Zanarkand is kind of a nonsense phrase without the game context, but it was 100% spelled correctly.)

[Legend]

My back. I picked up a couch and my back looked like a C.

[the-pi-guy]

I'm surprised I haven't complained about this like 15 times.

But a lot of people are convinced that statistics doesn't work.  

"Study polling 1 million shows that most Americans don't like anime"

"That only gives you an answer on those million, you can't extrapolate to all Americans."

Obviously you can't get the exact proportion, but practically the whole point of statistics is to extrapolate. How confident are we able to look at this sample and extrapolate about the larger group? 

If you're doing a good job randomly selecting and the sample size is relatively big (and it doesn't even need to be anywhere near as big as people think), you can be very confident about the overall sample. 



I'm not sure how to describe it, but I feel like it's one of the most common "smart people" misconceptions that I see.  I'm not sure if my phrasing there makes sense, but I'm struggling to articulate it better.  

[Legend]

I'm surprised I haven't complained about this like 15 times.

But a lot of people are convinced that statistics doesn't work. 

"Study polling 1 million shows that most Americans don't like anime"

"That only gives you an answer on those million, you can't extrapolate to all Americans."

Obviously you can't get the exact proportion, but practically the whole point of statistics is to extrapolate. How confident are we able to look at this sample and extrapolate about the larger group?

If you're doing a good job randomly selecting and the sample size is relatively big (and it doesn't even need to be anywhere near as big as people think), you can be very confident about the overall sample.



I'm not sure how to describe it, but I feel like it's one of the most common "smart people" misconceptions that I see.  I'm not sure if my phrasing there makes sense, but I'm struggling to articulate it better. 

Yeah good point about this being a "smart person" misconception.

It is really weird. Cause half the time people disagree with the sampling method, which of course is a legit potential flaw, while the other half it is exactly what you are complaining about.

And I have no idea if the former actually understands sampling methods or if they are just part of the later but learned a different way to complain about surveys.