• waz@lemmy.world
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    4 months 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.

    • benni@lemmy.world
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      4 months 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: