The Great Bearded Geek Study

in test •  8 years ago  (edited)

Derived from the better-known Eric Conspiracy, this does not attempt to prove the Eric-ness of the world, but rather to determine whether bearded Geeks (homo sapiens numerorum et barbam) are sufficiently distinguishable as a subspecies.

So, here is my attempt at a preliminary survey.

Numerorum Et BarbamGeek Sans Barbam
Bob PeaseLinus Torvalds
Dennis RitchieJim Williams
Ken ThompsonTom Kilburn
Ian BellDavid Braben
Richard StallmanSeymour Cray
Alan CoxRobert Love
James GoslingCon Kolivas
Brian KernighanAndrea Arcangeli
Philip WadlerIngo Molnar

From this, we may conclude that the designation of numerorum is not dependent on the designation of barbam, and vice versa.

What can we conlude, however? It would seem obvious that there is a qualitative difference between the two columns, bears notwithstanding.

I think I am going to leave that one open for discussion.

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