Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
replyI 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.
replyDo general population normies really use em-dash, or do they just reach for the dash they see clearly printed on their keyboard?
replyI think they're pressing the default dash (actually a hyphen) twice, and that autocompletes to a single em dash.
replyYou can remove em dashes from the analysis and the trend is still there: newly created accounts are still 6X more likely to use the remaining LLM indicators (arrows and bullets, p = 0.00027).
replyEllipses were never part of the analysis.
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