• benni@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      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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    12 days ago

    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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    space adventures and western adventures are often similar or sometimes even the same franchise because the lawlessness of space is similar to the lawlessness of the wild West. On top of that we’ve seen several sci-fi cowboy movies and even on top of that count by movies related to aliens. And because of the affirmation reasons we have seen multiple space cowboys movies. Misread the post lol