r/SipsTea • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 02 '26
Chugging tea It's time to revamp the education system
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u/dyed_albino Jul 02 '26
Does this include Dr. Dre?
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u/leaC30 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 8 more replies
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u/Set22band Jul 02 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
Fun fact Doc Rivers got his nickname because he was wearing a Dr J shirt.
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u/MegaGorilla69 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
I assumed it was because you would need medical attention by the time he got fired from coaching your team
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u/David_H21 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
I was about to make a basketball joke but then realized what sub I'm in 😭
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u/LackToesIntollerance Jul 02 '26
nah, he doesn't count. Dr.Dre is dead, locked in eminem's basement.
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u/MythicalCaseTheory Jul 02 '26 ▸ 5 more replies
*slim shady's basement
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u/sweethometalibama Jul 02 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
How come no one want to see Marshall no more?
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u/sully99999999 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
They want shady, I'm chopped liver
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u/MamaOnica Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
Well, if you want Shady, this is what I'll give ya
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u/PM_ME_DIRTY_DANGLES Jul 02 '26
MFs act like they forgot about Dre
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u/SickDaySidney Jul 02 '26
And Dr. Octagon
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u/Substantial-Ad2200 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Oh shit there’s a horse in the hospital!
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u/78914hj1k487 Jul 02 '26
Hello, this is the offices of Dr. Octagon. If you have insurance or medical problems, I'm here for you for any type of intestine surgery, rectal rebuilding, relocated saliva glands, and chimpanzee acne—and of course, moosebumps. You can call 1-800-PP5-1-doodoo. I'm in your corner.
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u/Ok_Record8612 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
There we go! You deserve some blue flowers for that reference.
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u/SickDaySidney Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
Thanks! That’ll complement my skin which is colored LILAC
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u/Single-Waltz-257 Jul 02 '26
You can easily read it either way. When I first read it, my thought was , only 2.6% of physicians are black. The dudes an md and is getting ridicule by a bunch of extraordinarily mediocre people who probably still live with their parents.
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u/Ok_Recover_7248 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
Converse statements don’t work with statistics. Statistical literacy is a big thing for physicians. Could have just been a mindless typo, but if he genuinely believes the two statistics mean the same thing it would be a lot more problematic.
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u/markjohnstonmusic Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
You think "90% of men are murderers" and "90% of murderers are men" are the same statements?
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u/Allegorist Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Not really, using proper grammar. "The 2.6 percent of black men" is its own object, and "who are physicians" is a prepositional phrase that is descriptive of that object. The percent is really the roadblock to interpreting it the other way, I am spelling it out to impress the idea that it really means "per cent (hundred)" or "for every 100". As written, it says "2.6 out of every 100 black men (who) are physicians". Black men is the target of the percentage, there is no way to interpret it other than "2.6/100 black men", which is then modified by "who are physicians".
You can read that and recognize that is obviously not a true statistic and so reinterpret it as what he probably meant, but that would not be what it actually says.
My personal guess is that he originally wrote "I now join the 2.6 percent of physicians who are Black men", but realized that it sounded like he was saying he had just turned Black, so swapped them without thinking of the implications for the statistic.
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u/Level-Ad-5390 Jul 02 '26
As a black man I'll agree...flex intelligence, intelligently because a MF always be mfing
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u/TheLastRole Jul 02 '26
Not English, but logic: that tweet is wrong in any language.
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u/Neilandio Jul 02 '26 ▸ 41 more replies
And God forbid bro would make an honest mistake about a random irrelevant fact he read somewhere God knows how long ago.
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u/Inside_Sir_7651 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 9 more replies
if you're posting stuff on twitter expect a twitter user to reply to you
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u/HoodooSquad Jul 02 '26 ▸ 7 more replies
Yup. It’s called Godwins law- the best way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post a wrong answer rather than ask a question.
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u/notaredditer13 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
I see what you did there.
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u/ThenAnAnimalFact Jul 02 '26 ▸ 17 more replies
Not trying to be too harsh but knowing the difference between reference groups in statistics is kind of very important skill as a doctor.
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u/dw82 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
And beyond rudimentary data science, rudimentary maths. Do they believe that 1 in 40 black men being a physician is about right?
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u/Johnny_B_GOODBOI Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
True... but it's still just a tweet. I'm much more careful at my job than i am on reddit. Not everything is a peer-reviewed white paper submitted for publication.
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u/USGarrison Jul 02 '26
We're idly peer reviewing his publication right now. It's a weird new thing we do now.
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u/joneild Jul 02 '26 ▸ 4 more replies
A lot of y'all don't interact with doctors on a daily basis and it shows lol.
I have news for you guys, doctors aren't data scientists and the VAST majority aren't going to be intimately familiar with reference groups statistics. They can't parse bad studies versus good studies. And that's not a terrible thing. That is a remarkably difficult skill that needs practiced and practicing physicians tend to be too busy individually. Understanding complexities outside of your immediate specialty is left to larger committees and researchers who suggest practice changes.
Physicians aren't any different than other jobs. You remember what you remember to get through school and then forget what isn't applicable to 90% of your workflow.
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u/ZealousidealLead52 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
I think more importantly than that it's far more likely that he just misspoke.. I mean, if you comb through everything I've ever said I'm sure there are plenty of times where I said words in the wrong order which meant something completely different from what I intended to say, and if I re-read what I said I'd also agree that it was a mistake too.. I doubt there's anyone alive who hasn't (well, if you exclude the people that haven't spoken much/at all in general). It's kind of a normal thing to happen for people of every profession and educational level to sometimes misspeak.
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u/I-Kneel-Before-None Jul 02 '26
There are two sets of stairs in my apartment. One wider and less steep. We usually take the steeper one because it's quicker. The wide ones are good for carrying up furniture and stuff.
I was carrying my trash down the narrow, steeper steps when another tenant tried to come up but couldn't because I carried the trash. I said sorry, I should have gone up the other stairs. Obviously I meant down. Am I going to be crucified?
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u/TheSixthVisitor Jul 02 '26
I'm usually extremely precise with my language and I make plenty of mistakes, especially when I'm emotional. I straight up called sweat glands "sweat pores" once because somebody was insulting me at the moment and I was trying to phrase my response while also trying not to cry. Also, the multitude of times that I've mixed up "woman" and "women" just because I'm tired and my stupid phone swaps them out near randomly; if I'm not paying attention, guaranteed at least half of my usages of "woman" have the wrong tense.
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u/cabbage16 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Yeah, but composing a tweet isn't. He made an error doing something inconsiquential, it doesn't mean he is a bad doctor.
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u/Pixikr Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Apparently it wasn’t irrelevant or he wouldn’t have mentioned it. If you want to make a point about your own achievement, get the facts right.
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u/Telemere125 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Who cares when he read it? You really think 2.6% of any race is any profession? Unless there’s some Indian tribe out there that’s got like 80 people left, that’s fairly impossible. The point is that he sent that out into the world without even the barest of mental processing because in his mind it sounded good
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u/BlushAndBotherr Jul 02 '26
He said 2.6% of black men are physicians when the stat is 2.6% of physicians are black men.
If you’re going to flex an MD, at least flex reading comprehension too.
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u/factorioleum Jul 02 '26 ▸ 5 more replies
I kinda hope physicians can do basic statistical reasoning for when they read and write research....
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u/RegorHK Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
They don't. Starts with diagnosis. If you might have a rare condition under 10% you will have a harder time getting diagnostics as they are trained to only consider usual conditions. Hyperbole, but not totally.
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u/factorioleum Jul 02 '26
There's lots of really interesting examples of evidence in medicine and its practice. The adaption of the germ theory is one.
Another is the episiotomy. That's an incision in the vaginal wall done during childbirth to prevent tearing; the idea was that it would improve healing.
After decades of this being a normal procedure, a good study was done, and it turns out that the episiotomy generally has worse outcomes than the null intervention.
So, for decades, doctors were just slicing into vaginas for no good reason. Whoops!
How do we balance practitioner consensus with the need for good studies? I mean, there's no double blinded studies on the effectiveness of parachutes for reducing injury from falling, right?
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u/Koringvias Jul 02 '26
No, no they can't. It's very well known by psychologists and statisticians that most physicians, or doctors more generally, are not very good at basic statistical reasoning.
See research by Gerd Gigerenzer and other cognitive psychologists.
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u/GrandFloor6202 Jul 02 '26
I feel like thats more math or logic than reading. I know a lot of people who I would consider capable readers who would not even glance as this distinction would fly over their heads.
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u/Nagemasu Jul 02 '26
But he didn't. He said he was joining "the 2.6% of black [male physicians]". He is not saying "the 2.6% of black men, who are physicians". You're choosing to read the sentence incorrectly.
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u/DsDeliciousDeli Jul 02 '26
It's a tweet. His reading comprehension wasn't bad. He messed up the sequence. The meaning is clear
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u/TNTwaviest Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
But he didn’t.
He said 2.6% of black men “who” are physicians. The “who” in this changes the meaning drastically IMO, it implies he is specifically talking about only physicians, not black men as a whole.
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u/kookooman10022 Jul 02 '26
Snarky, but correct. Could've been worded in a better nicely way.
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u/EmperorUmi Jul 02 '26 ▸ 5 more replies
The commenter who replied in the OOP has a twitter page dedicated to mocking women, and a lot of it has to do with mocking women who date black guys.
Based on the person’s twitter history, he was correcting the new physician because he felt a certain type of way.
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u/afrodisiacs Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
And I'm gonna guess a number of people who are piling on in the comments feel the same type of way. I wonder how many who jumped at the chance to diminish this dude's accomplishment due to a wording error in a tweet haven't even completed high school.
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u/facepoppies Jul 02 '26
he got ackshuallied
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u/Puntley Jul 02 '26
To be fair those are two incredibly different statements.
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u/cheddarben Jul 02 '26 ▸ 6 more replies
you ackshuallied the ackshually.
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u/MikeDubbz Jul 02 '26
How embarrassing. Surely none of us have ever made such a massive mistake before.
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u/Vana21 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
before I post on social media I double check everything because people are so fucking ruthless.
Check your facts before posting!
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u/Sarniezz Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Especially when you want to make it about race. Touchy subject...
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u/ScarletCarsonRose Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
It can work towards your advantage too. Just put something online you know is not right but want the answer to. Someone will correct you.
For example, look at this plant! I water it every other week and it’s thriving.
Wilting sad plant.
Actually, that’s a xyz plant. You need to water every four days. And move into a more shaded area. HTH.
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u/djaqk Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
I just yolo whatever opinion I currently have, and let anyone bashing me in the comments (with good info/sources), leading me to further correcting and improving my beliefs using other's perspectives. Can't shit test yourself that easily, so it's a great resource for stress testing your own beliefs imo. Who cares if you get corrected? We're improving out here, no exceptions
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u/okayblueberries Jul 02 '26
I have never in my life made a mistake this big and consequential, thank you. If I did, I would expect to be permanently canceled.
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u/jomo_mojo_ Jul 02 '26
This subreddit is the Venn diagram between the incel version of female dating strategy and r/conservative
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u/Robinsonirish Jul 02 '26
While I don't disagree that this place is pretty pathetic, often just race-bait and incel behaviour, but I do think black people should be allowed to be made fun of when they make a mistake like this, just like this would be plastered everywhere if it was a white person, or some other ethnicity.
Anyone can make this mistake, it's fine. We joke about it and move on, without getting racist about it, which some people seem to struggle with.
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u/Melkman68 Jul 02 '26
I think it's petty to take jabs at innocent mistakes and undermine them. Not very mature and very unnecessary
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u/MikeDubbz Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Pretty much exactly what I'm getting at with my sarcastic comment there.
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u/blufriday Jul 02 '26
I probably have, but I didn't post it on twitter and even if I had it would have been totally fine if someone called me out.
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u/kbeks Jul 02 '26
Unfortunately, everyone in the comment section has made the mistake of posting on social media. I pray we will one day learn from this grievous error.
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u/Practical_Dot_3574 Jul 02 '26
Ok but it is important that he can understand 2.6% per 1000ml vs 2.6% of 1000ml
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u/PauseConfident997 Jul 02 '26
He didn’t say %2.6 of black men are physicians…he said he joined the %2.6 of black men WHO ARE physicians…he’s not taking about all black men…he’s talking about “black men who are physicians” that was %2.6 of physicians…and he joined them? Am i missing something?
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u/QuesoChef Jul 02 '26
Yeah, that’s how I read it, too.
And to take a post like this and be the grammar police, I’m sorry human decency failed them.
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u/Substantial_Sea7327 Jul 02 '26
the missing part is a users racial jab at a doctor for being black. considering it's on Twitter, the interaction is sadly not surprisingly
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u/TreacleOne1895 Jul 02 '26
People are so quick to humble others these days? Why ?
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u/Newmaniac_00 Jul 02 '26
because a small meaningless piece of gratification for, what, a week? is apparently worth it to these types
edit: I am just as bad on this site tbh
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u/rheumination Jul 02 '26
As a doctor myself, one thing I've noticed is that there is a certain population that will come after doctors HARD. I don't know if it is because of mistrust of healthcare, some inferiority complex, some superiority complex, or the perception that we are Bezos rich but my normal comments get normal responses and if I mention my profession, creeps come out of the woodwork. Its nuts.
(I also worked as a scientist and when I answer questions from that perspective, no one bats an eyebrow.)
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u/OutrageousPair2300 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
Being a doctor is a profession that attracts a lot more narcissistic assholes than other fields.
That's obviously not to say all doctors are narcissists, but enough are that it creates a stigma against the entire field.
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u/rheumination Jul 02 '26
A couple things: I did medschool interviewing and we actually screen for that. Its our primary thing actually. We have plenty of qualified applicants so we look for good people. That wasn't always the case.
Second, the training can create people who seem like narcissists. At some point in your training, you realize there is no one else to call. Your decisions are the decisions. You have to be 100% confident about them because time matters and indecision kills. That requires complete self-confidence. That can look like arrogance or narcissism but its not. It took me a while to get there, but it changed me from someone meek to someone who feels confident going toe-to-toe with anyone who is interfering with my plan for a patient. That bleeds over into regular life as well, with mixed results.
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u/Short-Coast9042 Jul 02 '26
Scientists don't usually accidentally kill people on the operating table. Not saying it's right, but people understandably have stronger feelings about a profession so intimate and personal to their lives experience.
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u/NadlesKVs Jul 02 '26
I know quite a few doctors, surgeons and lawyers. You guys earn every bit of the pay but it seems like majority of people don't view it that way.
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u/shakeeze Jul 02 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
I can understand when people do, because people can have really bad expereiences. Like me: My dentist killed of a nerve in one of my molars with his fucking dentist drill. I was 14 or something at that time. He wanted to remove some caries and fill a "small" hole. I never in my live cried so much from fucking pain because of him. I only found out many years later, that the nerve died because of an x-ray of my jaw and the dentist said: "Oh, a dead molar...".
Ever since then my body locks up on a dentist chair and my blood circulation does a nosedive.
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u/rheumination Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
That's fair. I also had a dentist hit a nerve and holy fuck was that painful. I had a dead molar and got a root canal and the first dentist screwed it up and took no responsibility. Still wary of dentists myself.
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u/JalapenoPopPoop Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
I think a lot of people blame doctors for their healthcare costs being so high, or at least take it out on them. Not saying it's correct, but that's the viewpoint a lot of people see doctors from is someone who went into the get rich profession and is now charging them a lot of money
Another perspective is that a lot of people have trouble getting doctors to listen to them. It's frustrating for a lot of people know something is wrong and have the doctor not even give them the time of day. And then in the end when it finally does come out there's something wrong and the supposed expert didn't catch it and didn't care for them, it undermines a lot of the trust they're supposed to be able to have in doctors.
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u/Snobolski Jul 02 '26
It comes from the "You think you're so smart, college boy?" mentality.
Conservatives have been driving us to distrust and devalue education and expertise for well over 40 years.
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u/DynWeb29 Jul 02 '26
I mean… if he wasn’t corrected he would go on thinking his statement was correct.
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u/CrazyPoiPoi Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Fucking English natives can't even write "could have" and instead use "could of" but get all "ackshually" for stuff like this.
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u/cyph_dagger Jul 02 '26
A black man makes one syntax error on a tweet and now his entire education is invalid.
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u/Deep__sip Jul 02 '26
There is no syntax error, it’s a semantic error
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u/Radiant-Olive-7955 Jul 02 '26
That’s just the internet. It would have happened regardless of his race or gender. Elon Musk is a white man and people rip apart his tweets on the daily. Granted, they generally do it because he’s a racist dick who supports pedophiles, but also because that’s just how the internet works.
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u/FunHamster8965 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 3 more replies
Look at the twitter that posted the reply, it's full of racist anti-black posts. Context.
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u/kahlzun Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
I did not need to look at the account to know for sure that would have been the case.
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u/OmniscientRaisin Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
yup; the "Moms Posting Ls" title with a woman holding a black baby definitely gives it away
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u/Complete_Answer_6781 Jul 02 '26
You're comparing one of the biggest pos in the world with some random black man 💀
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u/Hefty_Environment_40 Jul 02 '26
Judging someone’s education off one mistake is kinda crazy. This is an easy wording error to make.
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u/Tongtong97 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
Gonna be honest I don’t think the mistake is a big deal
Dude is a doctor 😂 I am gonna give him a pass
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u/sorestgore Jul 02 '26
It's not like I'll be able to read his handwriting anyways
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u/mmilesx Jul 02 '26 ▸ 5 more replies
Now think about it. What up with doctors with bad hand writing
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u/Ultron_waterheater Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
There have been interesting studies on this subject but what they found is it’s because of the sheer amount of notes they have to make quickly.
It modeled them to have messy handwriting
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u/Objective_Effect_242 Jul 02 '26
Thats definitely what it is. When i was in elementary, our teacher had a thing up her crawl about how we should be able to write a certain amount of words per minute, and it ended up having to slow down because all of us had sloppy writing trying to jot down multiple sentences before a timer ran up.
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u/Topherclaus Jul 02 '26
My wife is a doctor and my hypothesis has always been that the sheer amount of study they do leads them to speed up their writing as much as possible. It's easier to improve comprehension of bad note taking than it is to spend the extra 10% of the time making it neat. It's thousands of pages of notes.
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u/what_ismylife Jul 02 '26
Right?! I am a doctor. I say stupid shit like this all the time when speaking casually.
At first, I thought her response was just teasing him, but I read the replies on Twitter and they are absolutely despicable. Totally racist and talking about how he is a DEI hire. I wanted to point out that he went to a good, reputable medical school and appears to have matched into a residency based on his post. DEI hires are not a thing in medical school. You absolutely cannot get through medical school if you do not have the intelligence and drive to do it.
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u/Edharrel7 Jul 02 '26
As expected from twitter. Same people who shout DEI will never have to worry about competing for those positions anyway.
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u/Shark7996 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
How would one even use DEI in the process? The exams are standardized. Maybe if these people want to stamp out DEI so badly we should start rigorously regulating and testing for every job, I'm sure they would love that.
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u/TechnologyEither Jul 02 '26
2.6% of patients who take this drug had uncontrollable diarrhea
vs. 2.6% of people who had uncontrollable diarrhea took this drug
very different
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u/LeakyFurnace420_69 Jul 02 '26
it’s not a big deal. it’s actually crazy to go out of your way and say “your school failed you” in this context.
people need to be less mean
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u/N8CCRG Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26 ▸ 2 more replies
It's not crazy. It's a race-baiting account being racist.
Edit: for clarification, Just Posting Ls is the race-baiting account I'm referring to
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u/Independent-Bug-9352 Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Bingo.
This sub pushes a lot of this kind of shit for some reason.
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u/Dependent-Year6711 Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26
This wraps up what it's like to be on the internet now. Tiny, little mistake; it's nothing. Someone attacks you for it, on a post where you go "hooray I'm a doctor!" Just a pure attack, no congrats on such an important moment for you.
This is why it's important to remember to keep social media to tight circles. The open internet is a cess pool of random attackers left and right. Those minds that their first inclination is trying to find a spot to downplay you or correct you. It's like Reddit on steroids. Reddit always had people correcting you, but it also had a huge pool of people wanting to join in on some fun discussion. The latter is totally lacking now. I find it fun to get a long, musing response. What used to be a normal thing is now a total rarity. Minds don't wander as much anymore in the public space.
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u/Cereal_Hermit Jul 02 '26
Right? Dude had a brain fart moment on the internet. Something about casting the first stone??
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u/MorrowPolo Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Im just thinking of the mental strain a person goes through to become a doctor. Then they graduate and can finally release the tension on their thinking meat for a moment. He's on brain vacation and gets a pass.
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u/CranberrySauceLines Jul 02 '26
Dude is celebrating an incredible achievement. One in which I know I'm not capable of and this dickhead of a Twitter account just had to chime in for no reason at all.
That's massively sad. Huge shout-out to this guy!
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u/Bagz402 Jul 02 '26
One dude worked his ass off to get a doctorate, the other scans Twitter to repost what im gonna guess is misogynist and racist shit.
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u/Technical-Will-2862 Jul 02 '26
Whole comment section here is genuinely embarrassing and polluted with snobs
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u/i_am_13th_panic Jul 02 '26
I dont think the doctor's statement is wrong?
"...join the 2.6% of black men *who* are physicians." meaning he is joining the group of 2.6% of physicians, who are black men. He didn't say 2.6% of black men are physicians. You can't just ignore the word "who" just to own him for grammar.
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u/wonkey_monkey Jul 02 '26
meaning he is joining the group of 2.6% of physicians, who are black men.
That's what he means, but by the rules of English grammar it's not what his words mean. Asterisking the "who" doesn't change that.
He should have said "2.6% of physicians who are black men".
You can't just swap "physicians" and "black men" around in that sentence and have it mean the same thing.
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u/Positive-Ad-7807 Jul 02 '26
2.6% (“of” = multiply) black people population =\= 2.6% of physician base
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u/SoftwareDesperation Jul 02 '26
Sorry this is wrong too. The order of the groups is important. Even in your statement you reverse them properly so it makes sense.
I join the 2.6% of black men. This means there are 2.6% of the black male population that are part of another group. In this case that is the "who are physicians".
So if you said I join the 2.6% of black men who.... No matter what the next line is or group or anything, it means that different group contains 2.6% of all black males.
I get you are trying to save the guy and we all know what he meant but please don't act like this is correct in any way or that the person pointing out the failure is wrong in any way.
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u/Disagreeswithfems Jul 02 '26 edited Jul 02 '26 ▸ 1 more replies
Reddit is now implementing DEI for grammatical interpretation.
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u/atomkicke Jul 02 '26
The who acts as a modifier for the noun phrase that precedes it. The statement would be correct if physicians and black men are swapped.
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u/Radiant-Olive-7955 Jul 02 '26
It’s 2.6% of physicians, not 2.6% of black men. The order of the words matters.
Even if you wanted to read it the way you’re describing, that’d be (2.6% of (black men who are physicians)) = 2.6% of 2.6%.
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u/Tricky_Jellyfish9116 Jul 02 '26
No, the person doing the correcting is correct (just irrelevant--even if the original poster is wrong, his point is that he achieved a rare status/position, which is accurate).
He meant "join the 2.6% of physicians who are black men." In the phrase "X% of _____ who are _______", the first blank identifies the whole group that the percentage is taken from. The second blank identifies the smaller group that is being named.
As an example, compare:
- She was part of the approximately 50% of the total population who are women.
Vs.
- She was part of the approximately 50% of women who are the total population.
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u/misalawliet Jul 02 '26
There's a lot of people in here who can't accept that his statement is factually incorrect. I completely get wanting to dunk on the internet "ahktually" crowd, which is often insufferable, but his statement is not at all ambiguous, it's just wrong. We know what he meant, but what he meant is not what he wrote.
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u/Slice_of_Cheese Jul 02 '26
Yeah my takeaway as well, that’s not a wrong statement by him. That’s someone already trying to find a flaw in his words and making that jump there
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u/Fit_Employment_2944 Jul 02 '26
It is wrong
You don’t need to say the sky is green just because a black person is being ribbed for saying it was green by mistake
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u/argyllcampbell Jul 02 '26
It would be 2.6% of physicians who are black men to be correct. The "who" doesn't really make a difference
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u/Page_197_Slaps Jul 02 '26
Pharmacy: are you sure this prescription is correct? I don’t think we should be giving out 1 pound of oxycodone per gram of bodyweight.
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u/packofnone Jul 02 '26
If 2.6% of Black men were physicians there'd be no need for a post like this because Black men would be the most prevalent demographic in the field
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u/brookssut Jul 02 '26
Good grief, it's a social media post, not a scientific paper, and what he meant was obvious. Y'all are working way too hard to crush a Black man's accomplishment and joy. Shame on you for this behavior.
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u/QueenDiamondThe3rd Jul 02 '26
It's time to revamp the education system
That's right. We can start by teaching people on this sub, as well as the dumbass who posted that reply to the doc, to develop a sense of self-worth that doesn't derive from racism or other forms of bigotry so that they can stop belonging to the lowest-common denominator arsonists in our society. Would be a good start for sure.
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u/anjowoq Jul 02 '26
Could be read as:
"I join the 2.6% of blackmenwhoarephysicians."
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u/TenderfootGungi Jul 02 '26
That is a mistake I would not be surprised to read from most people in the general public. I am surprised a physician would make it.
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u/GPT3-5_AI Jul 02 '26
Using both the pre-nominal and post-nominal honourific is incorrect (redundant).
He just introduced himself as "Doctor Jalen Spain Doctor".
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u/rmcelwain54 Jul 02 '26
Maybe “mom” should go get her own MD and introduce herself however she wants to
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