Friday, August 16, 2024

Vice Presidents



Here is your daily reminder that correlation does not imply causation. This comic is from Randall Munroe at xkcd.

4 comments:

  1. And the longer ones bounding the correlated epoch went on to become president [hopeful correlation].

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  2. What it really shows is that people are more likely to use shortened versions of their names now. Richard becomes Dick, Albert becomes Al, Timothy becomes Tim, etc.

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  3. The real political consensus is that almost all VPs since 1980 have shortened their real first names to names that are 4 letters or shorter.

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  4. Short or long name has no bearing on quality.
    xoxoxoBruce

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