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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by christiangenco on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:05PM (#11630306)
My thoughts exactly. I won't put any credence in this information until I see a graph comparing the relative frequency of "nazi" as discussions grow with "Justin Bieber", "anosmia", and "Kevin Bacon".
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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by kazinator on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @02:27PM (#11630499)
Why? The definition isn't relative to these in any way. It doesn't say that Nazi mentions are more frequent than Bieber mentions. Just that it's more likely to occur in longer threads relative to shorter threads.
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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by mikeash on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:54PM (#11631217)
That's an obvious and boring conclusion, though. It's barely beyond saying that if you roll dice, sequences with more rolls tend to have more sixes.
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Re:78% of Reddit Threads with 1,000+ Comments Mention Nazis by kazinator on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @04:06PM (#11631297)
Yes; unfortunately, Godwin did not commit to any numbers, like "the thread length required for a 79% probability is 500 responses".
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