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Re:Why women leave tech: It's the culture by tomjen3 on Sunday October 05, 2014 @04:44AM (#8411794)
That is not relevant - sample all the stories posted to HN over a month and we might seem something interesting, but if you put all samples into one beaker, except for one all we will see is how different that story is from the norm.

Take the ebola thread posted earlier - there is clearly no ebola words in your first sample, while there would be in one taken soly from that story.

Look women just aren't mentioned that often on your average HN story because we assume them to be humans.

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Re:Why women leave tech: It's the culture by minimaxir on Sunday October 05, 2014 @11:15AM (#8412475)
> Take the ebola thread posted earlier - there is clearly no ebola words in your first sample, while there would be in one taken soly from that story.

That's...not how word clouds work.

Each bucket is taken from thousands of comments in hundreds of HN submissions, which each phase in the cloud appearing with over 100 times.

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