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is this not just a manifestation of the law of large numbers?

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Idk, maybe, I just thought it was dumb and funny

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Why the law of large numbers?

I’d think it’s p-hacking. Meaning if he tried out many different combinations, the chances are high he’d eventually come across some which are only correlated by chance. Here’s a related XKCD:

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Coincides with the release of Broke Back Mountain pretty well actually….

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I’d like to think that Ram Ranch is the sole reason for this correlation.

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This is the return of the space cowboy?

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Fun fact: the word “spaceman” was originally used to described a journalist who was paid by how much space they could fill. Quoting etymonline com: “journalist paid by the length of copy”.

It didn’t get used to describe a person from space until the the 1940s.

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Cayde-6 moment

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The hammer is my …

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