I think metadata studies are pretty useful actually. Broad questions like "what medical conditions does diabetes cause" can be investigated in that way. It's de

I think metadata studies are pretty useful actually. Broad questions like "what medical conditions does diabetes cause" can be investigated in that way. It's definitely not weird at all. But when people say "weird" I think people mean things that don't have immediate economic use, for example, a literature phd that is on the depiction of black hair in books from countries with black majorities vs books from countries with black minorities.