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He's changed the stats by taking a look at the articles to verify things like disambig status, so you'd have to be quite careful how you did your analysis to en
by gwern 3y ago
He's changed the stats by taking a look at the articles to verify things like disambig status, so you'd have to be quite careful how you did your analysis to ensure no reflexivity.
Personally, I think the reflexivity is part of the fun if you do a followup analysis. For example, I recently scraped WP to find 'the first unused acronym on Wikipedia': https://gwern.net/tla https://gwern.net/tla - it turns out to be 'CQK', and I'm looking forward to checking back in 10 years or so to see if anyone wound up using 'CQK' for a company or something, precisely because I wrote it up. We'll see!