So I’m taking a statistics course this semester and the instructor went over Mu today, which is the mean of a population and it’s pronounced mew. When she wrote mew on the board it got me wondering if there’s a coincidence that mew in pokemon is the ancestor of the entire population of Pokemon. Or is it just coincidence and mew is named mew because it’s the sound a cat makes?
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There are no coincidences in Pokémon. µ and µ2 are carefully chosen names. But seriously, yes, it’s presumably just the sound a cat makes.
Yea that’s funny. I was recently informed about jungian thought on coincidence in a psych course over the summer.
Were talking kittens, right? lol Thought adults say, “Meow” and the kittens go mew. I think I’m reading into something I don’t need too haha.
Relative fun-fact: the French WotC #3 Mewtwo was misprinted with the name Deuxmiaou, which in French literally translates to “two meow”:
An no, even though French cards have different names for most Pokémon, Mewtwo is still supposed to be just Mewtwo in French. 
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Quuador
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Not intending to hijack the thread but @teamrocketop, your profile picture is awesome!
To keep this post relevant, mew > mewtwo. And cats and kittens and the noises they make are cool.
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mu or μ,
average of a population. the central tendency of a distribution. mu is a combination of all observed values yet it is none of them. it can be used to generate numbers, each generated value taking on a characteristic of mu yet being it’s own independent entity. often talked about theoretically but almost never actually quantified. some say it may not even truly exist.
Mew,
pokemon. said to be the ancestor of all other pokemon. it is also contain the DNA of every pokemon and can learn every move yet it is a unique creature all of it’s own. extremely rare, very few have ever seen one. there are rumors on how to obtain one but many say none of these methods actually work.
Coincidence? ? ? ? ? you decide!
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