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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 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:

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This is the return of the space cowboy?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

~~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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oops, misread lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The hammer is my ...