The Great Bearded Geek Study

Derived from the better-known Eric Conspiracy, this does not attempt to prove the Eric-ness of the world, but rather to determine whether bearded Geeks (homo sapiens numerorum et barbam) are sufficiently distinguishable as a subspecies.

So, here is my attempt at a preliminary survey.

From this, we may conclude that the designation of numerorum is not dependent on the designation of barbam, and vice versa.

What can we conlude, however? It would seem obvious that there is a qualitative difference between the two columns, bears notwithstanding.

I think I am going to leave that one open for discussion.