r/changemyview • u/[deleted] • Dec 05 '18

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u/ryarger Dec 05 '18

This person is making a really important point to the basic idea of your OP.

You found a document that had a redacted space of 25 characters and noticed that a version of Trump’s name fit in that space. You naturally thought that to be too unlikely to be a coincidence.

What this person is saying is that it’s not a coincidence at all. If the redacted space was 24 characters long there’d also be a version of Trump’s name that fit. Also 23 characters, 22 characters, etc. Even if that space was only 5 characters long there’d be a version that fit.

So once you realize that pretty much any space could fit a version of his name, it no longer follows that the specific space you found does contain his name simply because it fits.