Who’s Eating All The Spiders?

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Start learning with your free 30-day trial of Brilliant at https://brilliant.org/MinuteEarth The average human, in theory, eats 3 spiders a year. If you're not eating them and I'm not eating them, who is? LEARN MORE ************** To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords: - Probability distribution: A function giving the probability of a certain measure having a certain value. - Skewness: A measure of how asymmetrical a distribution looks like. - Multimodal distribution: A distribution with more than one peak. If you liked this week’s video, you might also like: - This applet where you can play around with means and medians https://www.statcrunch.com/applets/type1&meanmedian - I don't know if this counts as "fun" but here's the dataset I created for the cars two-peaked distribution https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR4CH1Lcq4pxXeh8f6bswqqK64jdzLv0ajln_DLq5Sapm4WAER9tT9olCDUKJejGT3ugRXxwNUoT10p/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true SUPPORT MINUTEEARTH ************************** If you like what we do, you can help us!: - Become our patron: https://patreon.com/MinuteEarth - Our merch: http://dftba.com/minuteearth - Our book: https://minuteearth.com/books - Share this video with your friends and family - Leave us a comment (we read them!) CREDITS ********* Arcadi Garcia, David Goldenberg, Lizah van der Aart | Script Writers David Goldenberg | Director Cameron Duke, Arcadi Garcia | Narrators Arcadi Garcia | Illustration, Video Editing and Animation Nathaniel Schroeder | Music MinuteEarth is produced by Neptune Studios LLC https://neptunestudios.info OUR STAFF ************ Lizah van der Aart • Sarah Berman • Cameron Duke Arcadi Garcia i Rius • David Goldenberg • Melissa Hayes Alex Reich • Henry Reich • Peter Reich Ever Salazar • Leonardo Souza • Kate Yoshida OUR LINKS ************ Youtube | https://youtube.com/MinuteEarth TikTok | https://tiktok.com/@minuteearth Twitter | https://twitter.com/MinuteEarth Instagram | https://instagram.com/minute_earth Facebook | https://facebook.com/Minuteearth Website | https://minuteearth.com Apple Podcasts| https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/minuteearth/id649211176 REFERENCES ************** Roser, Max, Cameron Appel, and Hannah Ritchie. “Human Height.” Our World in Data, January 23, 2024. https://ourworldindata.org/human-height. US Census Bureau. “PINC-11. Income Distribution to $250,000 or More for Males: 2022” and “PINC-11. Income Distribution to $250,000 or More for Females:2022”. US Census Bureau, 2022. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cps/tables/pinc-11/2023/