At First I Scoffed...

but the more I thought about it, the more admirable it became as a shortcut/ideograph to some very common phenomenon. It has predictive power, and that is more than can be said of a number of "scientific" mathematical statements which pretend to be more than shortcuts/ideographs [such as the statistical analysis behind the predictions for this hurricane season]. Empirically, as the decades have rolled by, the American universities are indeed more and more full of P.