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Spiders Georg
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語源
From a 2013 Tumblr post by Max Lavergne inventing a satirical explanation for a popular urban legend claiming the average person swallows three spiders a year: "Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 [spiders] each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted."
固有名詞
Spiders Georg (plural Spiders Georgs)
- (Internet slang, humorous, statistics) A notional extreme outlier in a population, originally characterized as a cave-dwelling hermit who eats 10,000 spiders per day and thus skews the statistical average for all humanity.
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2020 June 3, Lissa Harris, Phillip Pantuso, Roger Hannigan Gilson, “Coronavirus Roundup: Superspreaders May Account for Most COVID-19 Transmission”, in The River:
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“The consistent pattern is that the most common number is zero. Most people do not transmit,” said Jamie Lloyd-Smith, another infectious disease specialist, sounding a bit like the statistics meme Spiders Georg.
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2024, Kai Jac Cordes, “How Many Spiders Would Spiders Georg Have To Eat?”, in Journal of Interdisciplinary Science Topics, volume XCI, number 24:
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On the day the post was made, the world population was 7,252,764,262 [9]. That would mean that Spiders Georg would have to eat approximately 2.176x10 spiders per day.
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- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Spiders Georg.
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参照
- ^ Gavia Baker-Whitelaw, "The itsy bitsy saga of Tumblr’s Spiders Georg", The Daily Dot, 17 November 2013
- ^ Sara Roncero-Menendez, "This Meme Is A Reminder You Really Can't Trust Facts You Read On The Internet", Huffington Post, 3 June 2014
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