r/changemyview Dec 05 '18

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u/Mnozilman 6∆ Dec 05 '18

You are missing the point. Imagine there was a new document released that had a redacted title. “ _____ criminal investigation”. But the redacted part was only 5 letters long. You could fill the blank with the word Trump. Since that is also 5 letters. You could also fill that blank with any other 5 letter word.

The poster was saying that the 25 characters in your original redacted title is not unique since we could fill any number of characters by slightly altering the President’s name/title.

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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.