• otp@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    “X has never happened (until it happened)” is literally the point of the comic.

    It’s not a divide by zero problem because we’re looking at all the presidents for a given criteria. N is the number of presidents elected.

    Every one of those blurbs, and the two additional ones suggested here, are a situation where N equals the number of prior presidential elections. And all of them are 0%, because the listed criteria were always 0/N.

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        6 months ago

        It seems like you’re purposely ignoring the point of the comic (highlighting the fallacy pertaining to things that never happened before) so that you can continue to believe that the probability of something that never happened before is greater than the probability of something that never happened before.

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          6 months ago

          Oh my good clam-baking mullet wearing jesus my dude.

          Why is it always projection with you people?

          The thing that has never happened: a felon is a candidate. We have no information on this or how it will impact the results of a presidential campaign.

          You want to interpret this as a result, but you shouldn’t. We have no data here.