The author did not compare against the findability of other articles which aren't about net neutrality. So his conclusion that it's about the content of his article isn't supported by his analysis.
Not everything in life is a scientific experiment that fits into an
undergraduate "research methods" model of the world.
What does it even mean to conduct a sampling of "findability" within a
system whose results depend on when you search, who you are, where you
search from, and the subject on which you're searching? We're way
beyond Schrodinger's cat level of uncertainty with these
non-deterministic systems and their hidden actors explicitly
manipulating the results (as "guardrails", "moderation", whatever).
Search (and AI) is a principal agent problem and there are insoluble
trust issues around information technology today that make a
"scientific" approach rather naive.
The article is not about net-neutrality either, it's about pieces of information silently disappearing from the public internet, without even the authors being notified. The contents of the specific article are not the focus here.
Pedantically, all words are made up. I'd assume GP is using it because they see utility in a unambiguously-singular gender-nonspecific pronoun, opposed to the more widespread but somewhat ambiguous singular "they".
Yeah I also realized my wording probably wasn't right.
I meant to say words not known by most of the English speakers which can also not be found in the big dictionaries (to be fair Oxford had it, but Merriam webster didn't).
Especially when there is an established gender neutral pronoun: they
What does it even mean to conduct a sampling of "findability" within a system whose results depend on when you search, who you are, where you search from, and the subject on which you're searching? We're way beyond Schrodinger's cat level of uncertainty with these non-deterministic systems and their hidden actors explicitly manipulating the results (as "guardrails", "moderation", whatever).
Search (and AI) is a principal agent problem and there are insoluble trust issues around information technology today that make a "scientific" approach rather naive.