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by mritchie712 14 days ago
here's how this likely went down:

1. they found the dataset and thought "i bet there are weird order combos i could write a blog post about"

2. they did all the analysis and found nothing all that interesting

3. posted it anyway

3 comments

They did it interactively with Claude, it’s possible that it played up the significance and humor of the findings in a way that the interaction left the user feeling like they were really on to something.
That's the smoking gun.
Funnier than the article.
It’s the load-bearing argument
The file drawer effect, except this one maybe should have stayed filed.
scanned through pretty much the entire post. Still waiting for the funny part.