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by Tipzntrix 4991 days ago
This is very interesting stuff. What I'd like to know is how you could measure the size of each project. Otherwise this could be easily skewed by a user creating a ton of empty, unfinished, or even dummy projects once they have heard about this study. There isn't really anything stopping them on GitHub.

As a last comment: The descending grey bands represent the rank quartiles, e.g., the top band is the 100th percentiles, then 80th percentile, etc. If there are 5 of them, doesn't that make them quintiles (which my spellchecker claims isn't a word, haha)?