Why are the Simpsons good at predicting future events?

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Question: Why are the Simpsons good at predicting future events?
Position‹3 of 3: Huge sample size - one of the outrageous things was sure to happen

Proponents of this position hold that the apparent prescience is a counting artifact: a series running for decades made so many throwaway absurd claims that some were bound to resemble later events, while the misses went unrecorded.

Supporting arguments · 2

A long enough run of absurd jokes will contain some that later come true
The misses are never counted, so the hit rate is never actually measured