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Max Stearns

Sep 14, 2018
10 min

The Newest Viral Media Graphic

In November 2017, I stumbled upon Vanessa Otero’s viral media graphic, which, at the time, was in its third iteration. In my first blogpost on this subject, I explained why I found the graphic intuitive and appealing; I distilled her more detailed set of seventeen of evaluative criteria into my own broader set of five, sometimes overlapping, categories; and I offered a theoretical explanation of the curve’s apparent Gaussian shape, resembling a standard probability distributi

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The Viral Media Graphic (with special thanks to Vanessa Otero)

Max Stearns

Nov 18, 2017
9 min

The Viral Media Graphic (with special thanks to Vanessa Otero)

I arrived a bit late to this party, which apparently began with Vanessa Otero’s December 19, 2016 post on her wonderfully titled “All Generalizations are False” blog. See here (quoting Mark Twain: “All generalizations are false, including this one,” which Otero supports, asserting that most, not all, generalizations are false). The post is the colorful two-dimensional chart (the updated version shown here), which has gone viral, with over 2 million views world-wide. It depict

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Maxwell Stearns

I have been teaching law for twenty-nine years, and I am the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. My core areas of interest are Constitutional Law and Law & Economics, which I view as critically interwoven. My most recent book is titled Law and Economics: Private and Public (West Academic 2018, with Todd Zywicki and Tom Miceli). In this poster, recently created by the Maryland Carey Law Thurgood Marshall Law Library, I am pictured with several wonderful books that I've recommended to friends, family, and students.