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Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 07 June 2013 09:16:09AM 2 points [-]

because -> 41.241
p -> 38.129
should -> 34.016
sat -> 33.974
much -> 33.113
cholesterol -> 33.056
evidence -> 32.444
iq -> 32.092
comments -> 31.454
scores -> 30.690
clear -> 28.899

Your contribution comprises ~284kB of plain text, and is the thirteenth-largest in the corpus.

Comment author: Vaniver 07 June 2013 05:04:54PM 1 point [-]

Thanks!

Interestingly, the only one of those that I recognize as clearly one of my verbal quirks is "clear," which I use a lot in "it's not clear to me that ...", but it barely made it onto the list. I participate in most of the discussions on intelligence testing, so it's no surprise that "sat," "iq," and "scores" are high. "Cholesterol" seems likely to be an artifact from a single detailed conversation about it, and then apparently I like words like "because," "should," and "much" more than normal, which is not that surprising given my general verbosity. I know I use the word "evidence" more than the general population, but am surprised I use it that much more than LW, and "comments" is unclear. Probably meta-discussion?

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 07 June 2013 05:23:02PM 2 points [-]

Most incidence of "comments" seems to be in the context of moderator actions. There are 44 occurrences in your contribution to the corpus, which is around 50,000 words.

As for "evidence", there are 70 occurrences in 50,000 words. So on average, every 715th word you say in comments is "evidence".