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mobby_6kl posted:Here's a awful car color chart:
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I’m outing myself as someone with a good memory for useless facts. That graph has come up in this thread before. It’s based on modern traffic incidents in one particular county, where the model year and color are dutifully noted and published. Basically, the data is noisy as all hell. Kennel posted:https://community.jmp.com/t5/JMP-Blog/Exploring-30-years-of-car-colors/ba-p/30746 Kennel posted:Haha, I looked at the data and all of the yellow 1974 car incidents refer the same case:
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Feb 22, 2022 13:26
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:
it's the cheapest color
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lord funk posted:I think China really throws off that statistic. Easily 90% of the cars on the road here are white for some reason. Space Kablooey posted:it's the cheapest color
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Feb 22, 2022 15:56
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In my case I didn't want to pay 5k banana republic bucks more for just a literal new coat of paint, so I'd say it's utilitarianism on my part. But I'm also really boring as a person, so
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Feb 22, 2022 18:39
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You don't want to be driving while black in the States.
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Feb 22, 2022 18:43
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mobby_6kl posted:White cars are also the standard in the middle east for obvious reasons. Also seems to be the most common color for fleet vehicles in Europe as well probably just because it's the most generic. I want to make a 'i can't see the camouflage' color joke but I really can't. I think that puke green is cream? gently caress that's terrible. E:maybe it's grey
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Feb 22, 2022 18:57
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Outrail posted:I want to make a 'i can't see the camouflage' color joke but I really can't. I think that puke green is cream? gently caress that's terrible. "Gray" 
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Feb 22, 2022 19:17
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I have always been aware that, obviously, some people must be buying new cars and therefore can pick colours, but everyone I have ever known have based their colour choice on "it is the colour the car had" because used cars don't come multiple choice.
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Feb 22, 2022 20:10
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You can choose a used car basd on color, or at least you could before the carpocalypse.
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Feb 22, 2022 20:15
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mobby_6kl posted:You can choose a used car basd on color, or at least you could before the carpocalypse. Well, that still depends on where you buy from and how popular of a model it is. Some recent model year at a dealer? Sure, pick and choose. But most of me and my folks' cars have been from private sellers, and it's often like "hope you're fine with blue, because that's the one that meets your condition/price/timeline criteria at the moment".
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Feb 22, 2022 20:18
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mobby_6kl posted:You can choose a used car basd on color, or at least you could before the carpocalypse. I spent a year looking for the car I wanted. Make-model-year and condition were the only considerations for me. maybe one day I'll escape Hellworld and buy a new car off the lot.
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Feb 22, 2022 20:21
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mobby_6kl posted:You can choose a used car basd on color, or at least you could before the carpocalypse. (it's silver)
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Feb 22, 2022 21:00
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why the hell wouldn't they use the actual colors? argh also i'm 1974, the year of no black cars
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Feb 23, 2022 08:35
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You can just have your car painted, it makes the cops gently caress off too.
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Feb 23, 2022 08:35
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flavor.flv posted:I think they're mostly work vans and fleet vehicles Monochromatic paint jobs are often the cheapest ones. It's simply more expensive to make colored paints than paints in the white/gray/black spectrum. It's especially difficult with the expectations people have for modern paint jobs. All those bright color options in the 70s? First of all, they weren't deep and rich and metallic like today's cars -- they kinda looked like glossy house paint. And second, they were all sunbaked and faded within five years. That wasn't a problem at that time because whatever, you just get a new car every three years, and nobody expected paint to last anyway. Today we actually can make paint jobs that last fifteen or twenty years, so that's the expectation, and it's just that much harder to do it with brighter pigments. The other big factor is just that most people are terminally boring. They like gray cars because they are too scared to make a statement. What if the neighbor laughs at my orange car? And what about my resale values?? If people are reluctant to get brightly colored cars, that means it's going to be harder for me to sell mine eventually, and clearly that's much more important than getting the color I want today! Better get yet another fog-gray Prius and drive around with the headlights off, I wouldn't want to stand out!!
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Feb 23, 2022 08:46
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My great grandmother would paint her car with literal house paint every few years. Wish I could find a picture of it
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Sagebrush posted:why the hell wouldn't they use the actual colors? argh Looks like they hosed up the data and switched black and yellow that year.
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Feb 23, 2022 09:00
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Black cars are the easiest to evade the police in.
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Feb 23, 2022 09:18
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Yellow cars georg, who lives in a cave and buys over 10,000 yellow cars in 1974
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Feb 23, 2022 11:29
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Outrail posted:Looks like they hosed up the data and switched black and yellow that year. No, a single case involving a single Yellow car just had a lot of incidents logged against it that year: Kennel posted:Haha, I looked at the data and all of the yellow 1974 car incidents refer the same case:
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Feb 23, 2022 16:57
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Now I'm suspecting crooked cop
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90s Cringe Rock posted:You can just have your car painted, it makes the cops gently caress off too. Unperson_47 posted:My great grandmother would paint her car with literal house paint every few years. Wish I could find a picture of it Platystemon posted:Black cars are the easiest to evade the police in.
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Phosphine posted:I have always been aware that, obviously, some people must be buying new cars and therefore can pick colours, but everyone I have ever known have based their colour choice on "it is the colour the car had" because used cars don't come multiple choice. Even when I was looking at new cars (ca. 2014-2015), my experience was that my choices were white, black, grey, or "we have one in blue at the dealership two hours away from here".
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Feb 24, 2022 18:29
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If you've got 12 minutes to kill, here's a video on car colors over the years. In my own experience, I have been noticing cars in colors other than black/grey/white, mostly dark reds and blues, but also a lot of the orange/creamsicle color.
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Feb 24, 2022 18:46
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I think every so often a car manufacturer will throw in a weird colour in order to make that year's model stand out, but black/grey/silver/white remain standards so they are just going to be the overwhelming majority of cars on the road.
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Feb 24, 2022 18:51
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you get $4/hr, 20 days a week, 69 hours minimum
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Something about green cars makes me think of the mid 90's to the mid 2000's. I don't know what causes that association. Colors come in waves. Like, around 2010 there were tons of cars being sold in various shades of orange and red that weren't the usual. Then suddenly it was all back to the usual white black silver red. Anyway in the late nineties there was this period where absolutely everything was offered in dark metallic green. It was in no way confined to one make or model. It was never completely dominant but you saw them everywhere.
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Feb 24, 2022 21:01
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Yep, had a dark metallic green Focus. I called it the Ficus. Before that, metallic gray, then silver and my first was a powder blue Pinto. Since the Ficus: "Sable Mist", which was actually a metallic tan/goldish; medium metallic gray and my latest is a deep metallic blue, which usually looks almost black, but in sunlight looks pretty nice!
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I had a 90s 200sx (the two-door Sentra type) that was a complete piece of poo poo, but it had a cool motor (or it would have if it was the turbo version) and it was purple To this day, the only thing I miss about it is the purple (yes, it was also available in green)
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Feb 24, 2022 23:12
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MrUnderbridge posted:Yep, had a dark metallic green Focus. I called it the Ficus. The first gen Focus hatchback is one off those cars that, in my mind, have a default color, that dark-ish teal color it had. I can't even explain why specifically the Focus, we never had one, and while we did have other cars in other colors, it's not like I think "Alfa Romeo 156 = Red" by default
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I like how old cars from the 70s look now, rusted, paint faded to an washed out mess, every car should look like that
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Humble Bundles take a minimum of 30% and let you distribute your donation to charity and the publisher of the products you're buying. But 30% would look bad on a graph, so you get things like:
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Does Humble bundle have a maximum portion you can actually give them? If not, then it just reflects that they're on different scales. I.e. the Humble slider can go all the way up to 25, while the others are capped at 17.50
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El Fideo posted:Does Humble bundle have a maximum portion you can actually give them? If not, then it just reflects that they're on different scales. I.e. the Humble slider can go all the way up to 25, while the others are capped at 17.50 They blocked out the bottom quarter on the one slider, and they should block out the top quarter on the other two. Having different scales makes it misleading in an unnecessary way. Edit: And the gray part isn't big enough. I thought that at first but double guessed myself. Dylan16807 has a new favorite as of 01:57 on Feb 28, 2022 |
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The CDC is bad at this. From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html:
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Phanatic posted:The CDC is bad at this. From https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html: What's bad about this? Most of the deaths are old people. Other measures are distributed more evenly in the population.
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104% dead
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Count Roland posted:What's bad about this? Most of the deaths are old people. Other measures are distributed more evenly in the population. The number for pediatric deaths should actually be about 0.1%, instead of 4%, and that would also make the percentages add up to ~100% instead of 104%. It's also just wrong that the 0-17 deaths % is higher than the hospitalization %.
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