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bolus ago

I started thinking about the 2 klines who are lawyers, and the multiple r Harris who are lawyers, and the different variations of achilles/james/jimmy that alefantis had used and it struck me that we seem to find lots of "oh those two guys with the same name are different"

https://i.sli.mg/Y9Unwp.png

There are approximately 145 andrew klines in the us. The odds that two of them are lawyers in the dc area are relatively slim.

bolus ago

By comparison, there are 2 or fewer named James alefantis and over named 6700 Richard Harris.

Before we jump on the two or fewer...i personally know people whose last names are genuinely unique enough to generate the same stat.