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Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by Yen on Thursday April 20, 2017 @04:00PM (#14160295)
Even more egregious than that:

> For quality control, I looked only at comments with Reddit score > 100

That's a non-trivial popularity score. Also, since it's an absolute score, it will bias against smaller subreddits, where 100 points on any comment is a difficult task.

This is much less "how people talk on reddit", and much more "the type of comment that gets upvotes on the default subreddits"

Re:How people talk about marijuana on Reddit: a natural lang... by PascLeRasc on Friday April 21, 2017 @03:22PM (#14168539)
Yikes, that sounds like a great way to bias your data away from controversial opinions about weed. That would be like taking an exit poll of only people wearing lots of political apparel.