Crediting some fairly natural (and intuitively understood) concepts with people’s names seems to be a distinctly American idea. I’ve never used the term Venn diagram (although I have drawn two overlapping circles to illustrate a point countless times) before I came to the U.S. Similarly, I was shocked to hear that the idea to illustrate the degree of fulfillment with partially-filled circles is actually being credited to a dude who first seemed to have popularized (pointed out the obvious?) this particular visualization method.

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