“Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy”*…
Reddit turns its lens on itself and its users…
Randall Munroe sorted the sciences nicely by purity. Let’s see what sequence the application of other metrics, like usage amount of specific words in the respective subreddits, yields.
About 434k randomly chosen comments to about 34k submissions from 2013-08 to 2014-07 on /r/biology, /r/chemistry, /r/compsci, /r/engineering, /r/geology, /r/math, /r/medicine,/r/physics, /r/psychology and /r/sociologywere collected and analysed for frequency of specific words and phrases…
By way of analytic example: given the chart above, one shouldn’t probably shouldn’t be surprised by these results…
More insight at “Science subreddits and their choice of words.”
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As we get our rocks on, we might send stony birthday greetings to Raphael Pumpelly; he was born on this date in 1837. A geologist and explorer, Pumpelly is best remembered for his pioneering petrographic study of the Great Lakes region, as a result of which he sensed the increasing importance of steel, and advised investors to search for iron rather than gold– making those who heeded his advice great fortunes.
