Depends on the country.

“The average is calculated by adding up all of the individual values and dividing this total by the number of observations. The median is calculated by taking the “middle” value, the value for which half of the observations are larger and half are smaller.”

So for example, in a country with 99% poor people, and 1% insanely rich people, the median person’s wealth is actually really small (like the poor people), but the average person’s wealth is kinda big (except a person with that mid-ground wealth doesn’t actually exist in the country).

In the case of voters, this means that in a country of highly polarized views and power, so of imbalanced sides, the median and average voter can be very different. One is what the people want, the other is what the power wants.

"The median voter theorem is a proposition relating to ranked preference voting put forward by Duncan Black in 1948.[1] It states that if voters and policies are distributed along a one-dimensional spectrum, with voters ranking alternatives in order of proximity, then any voting method which satisfies the Condorcet criterion will elect the candidate closest to the median voter. In particular, a majority vote between two options will do so. A loosely related assertion had been made earlier (in 1929) by Harold Hotelling.[3] It is not a true theorem and is more properly known as the median voter theory or median voter model. It says that in a representative democracy, politicians will converge to the viewpoint of the median voter.[4] "

Emphasis mine.

You can make mastodon have a somewhat more similar feel to lemmy, if you do the following:

Go to preferences > appearance and activate ”advanced web interface". Now if you do a search for a hashtag it will pop out a new column in the interface that you can now also pin, to stay. And in that column’s own settings you can now add multiple additional hashtags that will all display their results simultaneously in the same column.

So now it’s like as if you have a home feed of multiple hashtags, the feed is topic based, and not person based, and in that sense, more similar to lemmy. It gets very laggy tho if you add more than 5-ish tags, the backend code is not designed for that.

On your phone you can do the same, if you use Tusky. Just add a hashtags tab, and add multiple of them there. But not too many.

Lemmy, however, is the only one with upvote based sorting, and truly designed for the general reddit feel.

If you’re trying to follow lemmy’s content from your mastodon account you should type “https://lemmy.ml/c/asklemmy” (without the quotes… and also omitting https:// should work as well, as well as typing “@asklemmy@lemmy.ml”, again, without the quotes) into the search field on mastodon, and it should pop up there, and you should be able to follow it. Repeat for any other lemmy community you might be interested in.

You won’t be able to post to the community, but you’ll be able to read it, and reply to posts and comments in the community, from your mastodon account.

Does playing chess puzzles on lichess.org count? :D

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/about/ranking.html?highlight=sorting#lemmy

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/about/guide.html?highlight=sorting#a-quick-tour-of-the-web-interface

I’d say yes. On the same note:

Should the study of non-Western history be a requirement for a history degree in the UK?

Also yes.

Even if it were specialized as a western history/philosophy degree, and not just a general history/philosophy degree, some level of knowledge should still be required (and probably is already, I wouldn’t know).

I’d like to reference this blog post by the mastodon devs from a few days ago. Joinmastodon.org just had a redesign/relaunch. Considering they’re further ahead in the same game, there’s probably some useful insight that can be gleaned from there.

I’d just like to take this one step further and say that color has nothing to do with electromagnetic radiation and its wavelengths. Not at its core.

You could easily have a robo-eye that reacts to water waves or anything else that might carry similar information and converts it into a bio-chemical signal that goes into the optical nerve and into the brain and you’d see color. In fact, you can see color in your sleep/dreams with no input from outside the brain. Or less abstractly, you can see flashes of color with your eyes closed after going in a dark room after being in a bright space, because of the state of the ”irritated” chemicals in the back of your eyes. The subjective perception of color, the qualia as it is called, is something that correlates in the physical world, or has its physical correlate (noun) only to something in the brain. The EM waves are just carriers of information that supply us with information that gets experienced as color once it finds it’s appropriate home in the information structures of the brain, and the mind.

Another example of this is how people with amputated limbs can feel “phantom pain” sometimes in the non existent body parts, because the stump nerve is being appropriately irritated to send a signal to the brain, that becomes pain in the brain, independently of the existence or non-existence of the body part.

Same with irritating the ear bones, without any air waves, as with tinnitus. The air waves just carry the info usually, they’re not sound itself.

You can indeed hear EM waves’ info too, not see it, just listen to a radio.

Shape is something we experience because of the existence of space, the perception of the “category”, the concept of space in the mind.

Which one is more fundamental depends, I guess, which one you believe is more fundamental, if any, quality or concepts, perception or reason.

This would be of equal true value, whether you label things as a materialist or as an idealist, just label it then as, let’s say, matter arrangement, or laws of arrangement. Or maybe simply, matter and spacetime.

I’d say they’re of equal footing, and don’t quite go, one without the other, in the human mind, or the physical world, as we know them.

You can also unsubscribe from the community as soon as you’ve made the post. Agreed it’s unintuitive, but it’s a workaround that works for me.