Citations:Georg
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English citations of Georg
someone who has or does an excessive number of a specified thing, skewing statistical averages[edit]
- 2021 August 23, Katrin Tiidenberg, Crystal Abidin, Natalie Ann Hendry, Tumblr, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:
- […] a tumblr user commented on a broadly circulated myth that an average person swallows eight spiders a year, saying that the factoid is based on a statistical error, because "an average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted." The post's popularity led to the setting up of a Spiders-Georg tumblr blog (Knowyourmeme 2020a), and became memorialized […] a now-deactivated blog posted: "according to USA Today, the average tumblr user spends 2.5 hours a month on tumblr," […] "the average person spends 0 hours per month. We Georg, who live in caves & spend over 23 hours on tumblr each day, are outliers and should not have been counted."
- 2022, Randall Munroe, What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers..., page 54:
- I'm pretty sure the world doesn't produce [enough bananas to] eat six bananas a day [...] Unless there's one person out there who eats so many bananas that they throw off the global average. / [image] / BANANAS GEORG, WHO LIVES ON A MOUNTAIN AND EATS 17 TRILLION BANANAS PER YEAR, IS AN OUTLIER AND SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN COUNTED.
- uses from the online news media (not necessarily durably archived)
- 2014 September 19, Victoria McNally, “C3PO’s Been Working Out”: The Mary Sue’s Favorite Comments of the Week:
- No one will ever top this Spiders Georg reference by Breemeup: “average tumblr user makes 80k a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average tumbler user makes 0k per year. billioniare Georg, who lives in cave & makes over 10k each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted”
- 2019 June 30, Christopher Weston, Feral hogs meme: 30-50 hilarious responses on Twitter!:
- “Average yard has 8 feral hogs” factoid actualy just statistical error. average yard has 0 hogs. hogs georg, who lives in rural america and whose yard has 30–50 hogs within 3–5 minutes of his small kids playing, is an outlier adn should not have been counted” from @allohillary.