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rcarmotoday at 6:10 PM2 repliesview on HN

I still call voodoo on this. I use an iPhone, iPad, Mac to comment here—all of them autocorrect to em dashes at one point or another. Same goes for ellipsis.


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marginalia_nutoday at 6:14 PM

Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?

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nerevarthelametoday at 6:19 PM

You 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).

Ellipses were never part of the analysis.

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