2020-12-17
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด R – ratio
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ออกเสียง ratio = ‘REY-shoh”
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ABOUT THIS WORD
What else does ratio mean?
On the social media platform Twitter, a ratio, or getting ratioed,
is when replies to a tweet vastly outnumber likesor retweets.
This means people are objecting to the tweet
and considering its content bad.
Where does ratio come from?
You might remember from math class
that a ratio is a proportional relationship between two numbers.
For example, if I have two carrots for every one apple,
my carrot-to-apple ratio is 2:1, or 2/1 as a fraction.
In the Twittersphere,
a ratio specifically refers to the number of replies to a tweet
versus the number of likes and retweets.
The importance of this ratio was first called out by user @85mf,
who noted on March 7, 2017 that U.S. congressman Jason Chaffetz had a tweet with 701 replies and only 23 retweets and 108 likes.
@85mf commented:
“Nothing on this site makes me happier than reply-to-RT ratios like this. That is the ratio of someone who fuuuuu***d up.”
In April 2017, an article in Esquire,
“How to Know If You’ve Sent a Horrible Tweet:
A Deep Dive into The Ratio,”
gave a longer description of this phenomenon.
Essentially, showing you like something on Twitter is easy:
You simply like or retweet the comment.
It takes more effort, however, to leave a negative comment,
so, if lots of people do so, then it must be a sign the tweet has really stepped in it.
By fall 2017, the noun ratio had been verbed,
as in I’ve been ratioed or Let’s ratio this guy.
Before Twitter analytics became a thing,
having something that was well-ratioed,
like ingredients on a sandwich, meant it was well-proportioned.
But since 2017, there is little positive about being ratioed.
It means your tweet has been taken down by the hive mind.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
ratio
A ratio is a way of expressing the relationship
between one number and another.
If there is one teacher to fifty students,
the teacher/student ratio is one to fifty,
and the student/teacher ratio fifty to one.
If a very dense but wealthy prince were being tutored by fifty teachers,
the teacher/student ratio would be fifty to one, and
the student/teacher ratio would be one to fifty.
As you can see, the order in which the numbers are compared
is important.
The ratios discussed so far are “high"
—the difference between the numbers is large.
The lowest possible ratio is one to one:
one teacher to one student.
If you are campaigning for more individual attention in the classroom,
you want a higher number of teachers, but a lower student/teacher ratio.
