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minus-squareSatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down2·5 months ago We couldn’t actually do that with any of the factors in the XKCD because we’d be dividing by zero. A lot of the comic’s statistics were height differences and that’s where you argument falls apart.
minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down7·5 months agoAll presidents have a ‘height’ measurement, so we can make a probability distribution and look at the likelihood of an incumbent winning based on their height. https://fisher.osu.edu/blogs/leadreadtoday/blog/does-height-make-right-u-s-presidents-and-their-height-weight-and-greatness And because its continuous, we can extend that to Presidents whose heights haven’t previously been observed.
A lot of the comic’s statistics were height differences and that’s where you argument falls apart.
All presidents have a ‘height’ measurement, so we can make a probability distribution and look at the likelihood of an incumbent winning based on their height.
https://fisher.osu.edu/blogs/leadreadtoday/blog/does-height-make-right-u-s-presidents-and-their-height-weight-and-greatness
And because its continuous, we can extend that to Presidents whose heights haven’t previously been observed.