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Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
by marginalia_nu 8mo ago
Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
- jmalicki 8mo agoI doubt it explains any reasonable fraction of this, but github moving from early adopter techies to general population "normies" would be a reason for the shift. I would expect it explains at least some increase in the use of em-dashes.
- mikkupikku 8mo agoDo general population normies really use em-dash, or do they just reach for the dash they see clearly printed on their keyboard?
- zadikian 8mo agoI think they're pressing the default dash (actually a hyphen) twice, and that autocompletes to a single em dash.