Sometimes I speak on "power laws": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_law.
I now get asked "Why do those w/ power need laws to protect them?"
Seriously:
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Seems like an understandable confusion for non-science types who don't deal with stats distributions routinely
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It’s understandable that someone wouldn’t know what a power law is. But the fantastical projection immediately seized upon?
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No excuse - one search for “power law” or “power laws” (without even the quotation marks) would resolve someone’s confusion.
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Only if they knew there was ambiguity to begin with



