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by danarel 1912 days ago
You're not wrong (I am the author of this piece), but with time constraints (and my inability to write such a script) I modeled this "study" with that in mind.

It's why I chose terms in which I knew what results I wanted to begin with, and came up with the criteria before searching for them.

To run your study, I would have chosen to search terms I knew nothing about, and looked for results that better educated me. Through my method, I knew by searching for "Rust" I was looking for the programming language.

My method was not meant to be scientific, but I used as much of the scientific method as possible without the ability to a blind or double blind study.