Re: [POLITICS]: googling crime families

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon May 26 2003 - 15:11:12 MDT

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    Michael Wiik wrote:
    > I thought it might be fun to search google for phrases consisting of a
    > recent US president's last name + 'crime family'.
    >
    > "kennedy crime family" : 2 hits
    > "nixon crime family" : 0 hits
    > "ford crime family" : 0 hits
    > "carter crime family" : 0 hits
    > "reagan crime family" : 2 hits
    > "clinton crime family" : 85 hits
    > "bush crime family" : 4,410 hits
    >
    > -Mike

    Without in any way being a humorless jerk by implying that Mike's post was
    intended seriously, I still found it fun to list some of the possible
    fallacies (statistical and otherwise) that would be involved in trying to
    use this result as evidence. How many do you count? I got seven offhand. 

    -- 
Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence

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