715: Numbers

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Numbers

Title text: The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the reverse, I guess

Explanation

The graphics use the popular search engine Google to show how many hits (or web pages) are returned as relevant based on a given search.

The top one is of the popular children's song 99 Bottles of Beer on the Wall. In this song, the singers begin with 99 bottles and with each repeat of the verse, decrease the bottles of beer by one. The graph shows a slowdown at 66 bottles of beer, something highlighed. A spike occurs at 49 bottles of beer, which seems to be a popular varient.

On the second row, the left graph represents how many girl or boy friends someone has had. They seem pretty similar, though the logarimic chart may be working on that. To the right is how old (in grade) internet users seem to be. Going purely by grade, the average is at 7th grade. However, using the notation of Freshman (9)/Sophmore (10)/Junior (11)/Senior(12), there's a notable resurgance.

On the far right of the second row describes male internet user's seemingly described penile length. A common standard used is 5-6 inches being considered "average", but it doesn't appear that way on the internet.

The third row contains four graphs. The far left is the breast size of the female internet user. The actual breast size is generally considered a bell curve around a B or C cup, yet the hits on Google describe almost an exact opposite trend. Taken with the above male penis length and this describes a trend where the "average" person posting information seems to either embellish or the majority stay quiet.

Next to it is the # of hits per (mostly) female internet users talking about how old they are without having a boyfriend. There's a spike 17 and it seems that there is an anxiety about reaching adulthood without having a boyfriend.

Third from the left is the number of glasses drunk per day. Drinking water has a commonly accepted standard of 8 glasses a day of being the most healthy.

On the far right is a description of the number of lights. The spike at four is due to a famous scene from Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode Chain of Command Part 2 where Captain Pickard is answers that there are four lights, despite pressure to answer that there are five. This is itself a reference to George Orwell's novel 1984, where Winston Smith is tortured until he admits that there are five fingers being held up by his torturer, despite him only holding up four.

Bottom left is a reference to the popular Jay-Z rap song 99 Problems.

Bottom right describes the IQ of the internet goer compared to the average. By definition of the test, the average is 100 with a standard deviation of 15. However, it seems the average closes in on 145, more than 3 standard deviations above the real average!

The image text refers to the searches. In this, it humerously states that having a 9 inch penis and 147 IQ is better than having a 147 inch penis and 9 IQ.

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Discussion

It seems pretty obvious that the spike at "I'm 18 and have never had a boyfriend" is thanks to porn sites. I don't think that has anything to do with "anxiety about reaching adulthood." ‎108.162.216.54 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I think it should be noted that many of the graphs use.an exponential scale of measurement, which destroys any credibility the visuals had in a quite posssibly intentional moment of internet satire. 199.27.128.190 (talk) (please sign your comments with ~~~~)

I'm from Poland and when I was joining Mensa, the test score was in the Cattell scale, in which 148 is required to join. So that may be a reason for 147 ;) ArchieT (talk) 07:28, 29 January 2015 (UTC)

I think it's a funny little coincidence, that the graph for breast size slightly resembles a pair of breasts 162.158.91.209 18:59, 19 August 2017 (UTC)

Just for the record, for the people that didn't read the explanation; the correct number of glasses that you should have per day (on average) is 6. Beanie (talk) 11:49, 22 April 2021 (UTC)

The problem with any claim of a correct number of water glasses is that glass volume isn't standardized. For example, https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/2d9bcf/mom_asked_for_the_largest_glass_of_water_i_can/:

The part that is always left out is that you already get that much fluid intake just from normal eating and drinking! The common misconception that you need to separately drink six glasses of water is flat out wrong and potentially even dangerous.

You should always drink 150 (german) (shot) glasses of water a day! Me^{[citation needed]} 08:29, 8 June 2023 (UTC)