bizarre death row stat...

[zombie no.one]

okay last one because I'm burnt out on scrolling through the lists now, but from 1990-2026 there are NINE 'DeWayne's as middle names.... that's more than 'John's    you can't tell me that's expectation bias or whatever the term is.

pages here for anyone interested
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_people_executed_in_the_United_States_since_1976

[zombie no.one]

uh oh... there's a brand new entry since I posted this thread

 March 17th 2026....

Michael Lee King 

[claws]

those alternate "likely higher" suggestions come in as the bottom three, so I'm not buying AI's attempt to spoil the fun just yet!

AI:

He caught me trying to play it safe with the "big names," but the "Middle Name Theory" is one of those rare areas where the "common" names actually lose to the "fillers."

Pass it on to him: "I stand corrected—the 'Waynes' and 'Lees' of the world are currently winning the statistical anomaly war!"

[zombie no.one]

gotta love how AI manages to sound super condescending even when it's admitting being wrong 

[claws]

 

AI's reply

Ouch—fair point! Tell him I'll take that "L" gracefully. It's the classic AI trap: I tried to explain away the "fun" with a lecture on math, and then the math I used actually failed to back me up.

It turns out I fell for the exact thing I was trying to warn him about—making a broad assumption ("James and John must be higher") without checking the actual leaderboard first.

The reality is that Wayne, Lee, and Ray are the undisputed heavyweights of this specific, weird niche of data. Even if there's a logical naming reason behind it, the sheer gap between Lee (92) and John (8) is pretty staggering. It's hard to argue with a 10-to-1 ratio!

Tell him I'll step out of "professor mode" and just admit: The "Middle Name Theory" is a legitimate statistical rabbit hole, and his data holds up under fire.

Since he's clearly winning this round—does he have any other "glitches in the matrix" or weird stats he's tracking? I'm ready to be less of a buzzkill and more of a spectator this time!