TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 1 year agoAntarctic sea ice levels dive in 'five-sigma event', as experts flag worsening consequences for planetwww.msn.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1168arrow-down16file-textcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
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minus-squaretallwookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down2·1 year agobut is that better than six-sigma, or worse?
minus-squareSquirrel@thelemmy.clublinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoPer the article: For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it’s five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we’d expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.
but is that better than six-sigma, or worse?
Better, but still bad.
Per the article:
shivers violently at 6Sigma