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Google scholar has a full-text index of nearly all research papers. You can use it to get counts for arbitrary phrases. I've been using this to measure popularity of things in science. For example, here's the popularity of Greek letters used in equations 1/3

Andrew White 🐦‍⬛

@andrew.diffuse.one

14 Sept 2025

Here's one measuring the frequency of sample sizes. Like how often people use 8 samples vs 12 samples for reporting research results. N=2 is apparently the most popular 2/3

Andrew White 🐦‍⬛

@andrew.diffuse.one

You can also look at it over time. Here's relatively popularity of different animal models in research over time. Anyway, found this to be interesting. More details about it here: diffuse.one/p/d2-003 3/3

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Truth

@1truth.bsky.social

14 Sept 2025

This implies Human Ethics have changed over time. When possible, testing has switched from 'ape' to 'mouse'. Would be interesting (if possible) to see testing count on 'homo sapiens' as well.