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Lumifer comments on Should you write longer comments? (Statistical analysis of the relationship between comment length and ratings) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Lumifer 21 July 2015 04:30:10PM 0 points [-]

Well, one question is if it's "impossible to see a meaningful pattern", should you melt-and-recast the data so that the pattern appears X-/

Another observation is that you are constrained by Excel. R can deal with such problems easily -- do you have the raw dataset available somewhere?