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Does "population of stars" sound okay to you? Because it also derives from Latin "populus" which means more or less the same as "demos".
by waning_moon 4y ago
Does "population of stars" sound okay to you? Because it also derives from Latin "populus" which means more or less the same as "demos".
- chongli 4y agoYes, because population has lost the implication of people due to its usage as a technical term in statistics [1]. Demographics does not have a similar usage history. If it had, there would not be any cause for confusion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical_population
- adhesive_wombat 4y agoThere's no "cause for confusion" here either: the meaning is more than clear enough unless you're trying to be willfully confused by technicalities. The only way it might be confusing (or rather amusingly ambiguous) is if there was also uncertainty about the word "star". I don't think Physics StackExchange talks about film celebrities more often than astronomical objects, or that some film stars are invisible to the naked eye.
- stametseater 4y ago[dead]