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Emoji Rule (files.catbox.moe)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

How does the UK have the ❤️ but only northern island had it and the rest of the uk was 😂.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (1 children)

it's an example of simpson's paradox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson%27s_paradox

a worked example: if england/scotland/wales all use heart ❤️ 49% and use tears of joy 😂 at 51%, and then northern ireland was to use heart ❤️at 100%, you can imagine this would tip the whole uk over

even more freaky, you could make all 4 constituent countries use heart ❤️ at 49%, make each constituent use a different unique emoji 👍😀🥰😼 at 51% each, and then the aggregate would show that heart ❤️ is still the most used across the UK

now consider for each place on this map, they are ranking more than just 2 emojis. the map itself says that tears of joy 😂 is only scoring 5% worldwide, and that's 1st place. with margins of 5% and under to be deemed winner, it's no wonder funky effects show up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Thanks for this. If you know then you know.

Statistics scare me 😂 ❤️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Volume. They only use heart emojis in morse code to communicate all their messages in NI. Also the entire government website and all companies start and end their webpage with a mandatory 600-heart header/footer, for security.