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Coincidence or Probability?

TheZhuKeeper

TheZhuKeeper

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Juan (Hbox) pointed out something very interesting about yesterday's results (gsg2).

1. Jman
2. Lucky
3. Zhu
4. Hbox
5. Mango / Fly Amanita
7. s2j / Falcomist
9. SS / HugS / MacD / ???


1. Jesus
2. Joey
3. Julian
4. Juan
5. Joseph / Jeremy
7. Johnny / Justin
9. Jeff / Hugo / Mccain / ???


HOLY ****BALLS.

Do J people have an unnatural tendency to be good at smash or are J names just very common...? dun dun dun



I think I might compile a list of names for bracket results at gsg2, and if anyone else is curious, they can do the same for some other (preferably big) tournament. I might not be the right person to do this though, I'm really bad with names in the first place, and probably don't know many of people outside the regulars...

but yeah, let's do this?!
 
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Hahaha I've been saying this for a while =D

We can't forget axe is jeff, and mew2king is jason =]
 
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Heh, names that start with 'J' are common Zhu :D In my highschool is was a running joke that all of my friend's names started with a 'J' (John, Jonathan, Justin, Jeff, Joseph, etc.) And if you through some hispanics into the mix than it's too easy XD (I'm not racist I promise :p)


I'd go to the census bureau's website and find their list of most common names by percentage and add all the 'J's up and I bet it will be a significant percentage of the population :)




incidentally all of my friends were also born in July. heh, weird..




oh, so to answer your question I guess I'm going with probability :) though I think it's both..
 
TheZhuKeeper

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Druggedfox said:
Hahaha I've been saying this for a while =D

We can't forget axe is jeff, and mew2king is jason =]
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Ah yeah, Axe is ridiculous, m2k is m2k. We also got Javi / Juan (chops), I feel like there were a bunch of others but I'm really tired still so I'll think about it later.
 
Geist

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lol I remember someone pointing this out a while ago, but I never knew it was an epidemic of these proportions.
J people should be banned or have their name changed.
 
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SSBMLahti

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I can't seem to find the result thread for this tourney, would someone kindly direct me to it?
 
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Velox

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after brief estimations from US census bureau I got that at least 15% of the male population's name starts with a 'J'. I added the percentages up for about 30 of the more common 'J' names.

It's not a big enough percentage, I'm thinking it was both probability and mostly coincidence.
 
Winnar

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Whelp. Guess I ought to drop melee now

Thanks zhu for helping me figure out why it wasn't working for me
 
Geist

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If there's no such thing as coincidences why have a word to explain it? It seems to defeat the purpose of having a word if all it does is explain its own non-existance lol
This is all obviously some sort of vast smash conspiracy.
 
Metal Reeper

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Hbox isn't taking the credit for this one, this was noticed in the "common knowledge people don't know" thread months ago. Just sayin.
 
ETWIST51294

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Velox said:
after brief estimations from US census bureau I got that at least 15% of the male population's name starts with a 'J'. I added the percentages up for about 30 of the more common 'J' names.

It's not a big enough percentage, I'm thinking it was both probability and mostly coincidence.
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Your input on this discussion disgusts me.
 
TheZhuKeeper

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Metal Reeper said:
Hbox isn't taking the credit for this one, this was noticed in the "common knowledge people don't know" thread months ago. Just sayin.
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I mean many of us noticed this years ago, it's just there haven't really been any results with top 9 all with J names. I remember talking about first letter crew battles and how stacked J would be. Second place probably goes to A cause of Armada / Amsah / Adam / etc, but other than J, there's no clear winner.
 
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P.C. Jona

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Lovage said:
yeah j names are too good

but o names are the technical ones

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lmao

o names are so rare

thats why its only you and sw



and onteejuwa from freakin ukoswaylia

but hes on another level

so u dont know about him yet
 
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