This is a theme that is regularly blasted on Language Log. Just check out this post, for instance: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/003199.html
they convincingly argue that these kinds of stats are totally manipulative.
it would be interesting to create some 'pop culture' stats of our own!
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This is a theme that is regularly blasted on Language Log. Just check out this post, for instance:
http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/%7Emyl/languagelog/archives/003199.html
they convincingly argue that these kinds of stats are totally manipulative.
it would be interesting to create some 'pop culture' stats of our own!
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