standard-deviatin39
Original: standard-deviatin39 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man with reddish-brown hair: I just can't get a girlfriend.
Woman with dark hair: Have you tried standard dwartin'?
Panel 2 (narration caption): YOU GET 1,000 MEN OF LOW QUALITY TO WALK BY HER WHILE SHE SITS AT A RESTAURANT.
(A line of men walks past a woman seated at a restaurant table; one passing man holds a speech bubble with small text.)
Panel 3 (narration caption): THIS CAUSES HER TO SHIFT HER MENTAL MODEL OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF LOCAL MATE QUALITY.
(A bell-curve graph with a red curve and a blue curve; a woman looks at it.)
Panel 4 (narration caption): THEN YOU WALK BY, APPEARING TO BE FAR TO THE RIGHT OF THE BELL CURVE.
(The man walks past, set against the bell curve.)
Panel 5:
Man with reddish-brown hair: WAIT... THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PICKUP ARTIST MOVE.
Woman with dark hair: TECHNICALLY IT'S PICKUP STATISTICS.
Votey:
Caption (handwritten): Pickup humanities are for morons.
(A distressed woman's face looks on with a worried, side-eye expression.)
Man with reddish-brown hair: I just can't get a girlfriend.
Woman with dark hair: Have you tried standard dwartin'?
Panel 2 (narration caption): YOU GET 1,000 MEN OF LOW QUALITY TO WALK BY HER WHILE SHE SITS AT A RESTAURANT.
(A line of men walks past a woman seated at a restaurant table; one passing man holds a speech bubble with small text.)
Panel 3 (narration caption): THIS CAUSES HER TO SHIFT HER MENTAL MODEL OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF LOCAL MATE QUALITY.
(A bell-curve graph with a red curve and a blue curve; a woman looks at it.)
Panel 4 (narration caption): THEN YOU WALK BY, APPEARING TO BE FAR TO THE RIGHT OF THE BELL CURVE.
(The man walks past, set against the bell curve.)
Panel 5:
Man with reddish-brown hair: WAIT... THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PICKUP ARTIST MOVE.
Woman with dark hair: TECHNICALLY IT'S PICKUP STATISTICS.
Votey:
Caption (handwritten): Pickup humanities are for morons.
(A distressed woman's face looks on with a worried, side-eye expression.)
Alt text
A five-panel SMBC comic. Panel 1: a man with reddish hair says 'I just can't get a girlfriend,' and a dark-haired woman replies, 'Have you tried standard dwartin'?' Panel 2, captioned 'You get 1,000 men of low quality to walk by her while she sits at a restaurant,' shows a parade of men passing a woman seated at a restaurant table. Panel 3, captioned 'This causes her to shift her mental model of the distribution of local mate quality,' shows a woman regarding a bell-curve graph with red and blue curves. Panel 4, captioned 'Then you walk by, appearing to be far to the right of the bell curve,' shows the man walking past against the bell curve. Panel 5: the man says, 'Wait... that sounds like a pickup artist move,' and the woman replies, 'Technically it's pickup statistics.' The joke recasts pickup-artist manipulation as a statistics trick of skewing perceived averages. Votey (aftercomic): a worried, side-eyeing woman's face beneath the handwritten line, 'Pickup humanities are for morons.'
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.