#### [[video_The Zipf Mystery]] **Creator**:: [[Vsauce]] **Source**:: [The Zipf Mystery - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCn8zs912OE) **Summary**:: An exploration of the [[language]], [[probability]], [[human nature]], and how they all relate to one principle. Every language follows the distribution of [[Zipf's Law]], which states that a word's frequency can be estimated with 1/it's position. [[Mandlebrot]] explained this phenomenon as a simple result of a sample sample, which only raise further questions about human language and how do we use it. **Covers**:: [[Zipf's Law]]