Here's an absurd claim: If you want to estimate a baseball player's true batting average, you should look at wheat prices.
Not metaphorically. Not as a sanity check. Actually use them in your calculation. Your estimate will be more accurate.
This isn't a trick. It's called Stein's Paradox, and it broke statistics in 1956. The proof is airtight. The math is correct. And yet it feels deeply, fundamentally wrong.
Thank you for this. Have you heard about PPP (Purchasing Power Parity)? Some pages sell products -50% in Poland because we don't earn as much as in other countries.
My point is that once a word get's adopted in the global lexicon, it's not easy to unseat it. Doesn't matter if that word is a brand, a misnomer, slang, or even derogatory to someone, it will stick for quite some time. Companies and websites get rebranded all the time and can be done so overnight. Language doesn't move at that speed.
I'd argue that it doesn't help that X is such a stupid name that many people actively oppose calling it that. Twitter (noun) and tweet (verb) were hardwired into language, my guess is you'll still be hearing them in decades to come.
You don't understand UX/UI at all. It's User Experience and User Interface. This service is just obsolete and unfriendly. It's not about ASCII style etc.
Not metaphorically. Not as a sanity check. Actually use them in your calculation. Your estimate will be more accurate.
This isn't a trick. It's called Stein's Paradox, and it broke statistics in 1956. The proof is airtight. The math is correct. And yet it feels deeply, fundamentally wrong.
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