Comment by rcarmo
17 hours ago
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.
17 hours ago
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.
Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?
I doubt it explains any reasonable fraction of this, but github moving from early adopter techies to general population "normies" would be a reason for the shift. I would expect it explains at least some increase in the use of em-dashes.
Do general population normies really use em-dash, or do they just reach for the dash they see clearly printed on their keyboard?
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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.
Firefox Mac - did this get autocorrected to an em dash ... ?
Looks like no. It's probably Safari that "knows better".