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    ... we've all heard the factoid that the average person supposedly eats 4 spiders per second. This statistic is misleading; it's based on a study examining on the peak rate of spider consumption in areas where the spider-streams are densest. The global average rate is probably closer to 1 spider per second (obviously higher while asleep than while awake) ...
- https://what-if.xkcd.com/120/


(For those who didn't click, note that What-If #120 is "Excerpts from What If articles written in a world which, thankfully, is not the one we live in")


Nah, we all know it's just a statistical problem, and the real culprit is Spiders Georg https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/spiders-georg


I don't really get this meme.


It's making fun of statistics which use mean (instead of median) to generate sensational-yet-unrealistic headlines.




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