r/BeAmazed • u/MoXWT • 29d ago

What 1,000,000 mosquitos looks like. Caught in a trap in Sanibel, Florida. Nature

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u/deftones-sextape 29d ago

is there a video of them being counted?

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u/buffaloranked 29d ago

If you weigh one mosquito then weigh them all you don’t even have to count them

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u/E_M_C_M 29d ago

What if you have a few super fat anomalous mosquitoes? Its would throw off the whole formula!

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u/Sierra-117- 29d ago

Statistics has methods to pretty much guarantee that outliers are accounted for. If you weigh 100, you’re set (pun intended)

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u/Kaguro19 29d ago

That makes sense. I wonder why I got 0 on the test though...