If you’re confused: Birds are dinosaurs, crocodiles aren’t; note the “closest living relatives”
Though, isn't being part of a group the closest you can get in terms of relatedness?
Yeah, it's like being related to your family. Most people would consider your relatives to be related to you.
Are octopus related to octopus? I mean technically they’re 100% related, but also they aren’t related as related implies not being. Depends on your interpretation.
Agreed. Who shaves the barber? That paradox led to more stringent definitions for set theory.
Most people would consider your relatives to be related to you.
Really makes you think.
Forgive my ignorance on the subject, but huh?
Clearly I missed a briefing somewhere. I thought that crocodiles were from that era, or is that the joke that I'm somehow missing?
The joke is that birds aren't only related to dinos, but are dinos themselves.
So, it's a joke about the fact that both are essentially dinosaurs?
.. nope, I got nothing ..
No, the joke is that crocodiles aren't dinosaurs despite looking like them and being around at the same time, just closely related, while birds technically are dinosaurs, just not the big lizards of 64 million years ago.
So really, this is not a joke about dinosaurs at all, it's a statistics joke .. which would put this meme in the wrong community 😇
No, it's a joke about dinosaur taxonomy. A statistics joke would still fit though, this is science memes, not dinosaur memes.
I was making a joke about statistics not being science, but it's clear that not everyone got the joke .. pretty much the same as the original meme.
(This is humour, laugh.)
Statistics is maths, and maths is science insofar that you can't do science without doing maths. And I'd further argue that statistics is perhaps one of the three most important branches of maths to science, the other two being linear algebra and calculus. Also, it's been established previously that maths jokes are definitely welcome here.
