• @ohwhatfollyisman
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    1920 days ago

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

    • @yokonzoOP
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      820 days ago

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

    • @benni
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      719 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:

    • @SchmidtGenetics
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      520 days ago

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

  • @kayaven
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    820 days ago

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

  • MagnyusG
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    420 days ago

    This is the return of the space cowboy?

  • @waz
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    217 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.

  • candyman337
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    20 days ago

    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

    • @Leg
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      220 days ago

      One of us is missing something. Are you seeing a correlation between spaceman and cowboy? Because I’m seeing two Woody’s up there.