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Why do people keep getting this wrong‽
Stand-up Maths · 1 HN recommenders · 1 recommendation months
Recommended by 1 Hacker News commenters across 1 months (2020–2025).
SignalTube analysis
Among 105 other explainer videos tagged Recreational & visual math, the mean is 3.9 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 1 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 1 distinct month; the peer average is 3.6 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
25% of its 4 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2020–2025; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. Its verified runtime is 12 minutes 49 seconds. YouTube lists its publication date as 2020-03-24.
- Channel / speaker
- Stand-up Maths
- Verified runtime
- 12m 49s
- YouTube upload date
- 2020-03-24
- Hacker News mention years
- 2020–2025
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
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The comparison cohort uses other explainer videos in Recreational & visual math. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Why do people keep getting this wrong‽Current video | 1 | 1 | 25% | — | 12m 49s | 2020-03-24 |
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| But what is a neural network? | Deep learning chapter 1explainer · 3Blue1Brown | 16 | 14 | 84% | No recorded overlap | 18m 40s | 2017-10-05 |
| The Beauty of Bézier Curvesexplainer · Freya Holmér | 16 | 13 | 85% | No recorded overlap | 24m 26s | 2021-08-19 |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Very Wrong Math”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Edinburgh couple are handed £17K bill by Tesla as they 'drove in rain'”. Its short rationale: Explains why people repeatedly make this math error.
The archive classifies this as a recommendation in “What use is mental math in 2022?”. Its short rationale: Explains the units mistake in mental arithmetic with millions.