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SkyPunchertoday at 1:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

That part of things is what really made this entire argument all apart of me.

There are ~50k psychiatrists in the US. Roughly, 1 in 10k people in the US is named Scott. Mathematically, that means knowing "Scott is a psychiatrist" brings you down to ~5 people. Even if we assume there's some outlier clustering of people named Scott who are psychiatrists, we're still talking about some small number.

Surely adding in the middle name essentially makes him uniquely identifiable without an other corroborating information.


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raframtoday at 2:19 PM

> Roughly, 1 in 10k people in the US is named Scott.

Seems to be more like one in 425 per SSA.

kbeldertoday at 4:33 PM

Take a moment and apply some common sense to your math. Do you really think there are 5 psychiatrists in the country named Scott? That's off by multiple orders of magnitude.