Where the news at?
Thursday, March 31st, 2005Robotwisdom makes this interesting point:
Google News Search | # hits |
schiavo bulimia | 150 |
schiavo -bulimia | 65,300 |
Now, I pronounce that it would be unreasonable to expect all, or even most, of these Schiavo hits to mention bulimia — most of them have to do with legal and political wrangling and the course of her dying, and the cause of her condition doesn’t really directly enter into these things too much.
You’ve been caveated. Let’s make a fun comparison!
Google News Search | # hits |
pope parkinson’s | 6750 |
pope -parkinson’s | 19,100 |
If this were science, we could easily compute an ætiology relevance coefficient, or “matter factor” for each of these cases. To educate while I obfuscate, I list each by their name’s meaning.
Figure | Matter Factor |
Slave | 0.2% |
Father | 35.3% |