The "um"s of regular people follow a Poisson distribution, but the "um"s of professional presenters don't. But when the professional presenters are no longer doing professional presenting and doing unscripted Q&A, their "um"s -- or more precisely, the time intervals between them -- follow a Poisson distribution just like regular people. The Poisson distribution is a statistical distribution that assumes events are random and independent but happen at a predictable rate.

I found a weird pattern in how people 'Uhmmm" - Not David

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