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    The Science Of Red Shirts

    If you were ever a fan of this 'star trek' the cool kids speak of, then you've probably heard of this phrase

    nelly06
    by nelly06

    Community Contributor

    Redshirts are not the most useless members of the crew, as you might have guessed

    http://www.significancemagazine.org/details/webexclusive/4381371/Keep-your-redshirt-on-a-bayesian-exploration-of-character-deaths-in-Star-Trek.html

    What this means of course is:

    statistics are not always useful

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