I still call voodoo on this. I use an iPhone, iPad, Mac to comment here—all of them autocorrect to em dashes at one point or another. Same goes for ellipsis.

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marginalia_nu 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Why would recently created accounts be 10x more likely to be created by owners of Apple products or English majors than the baseline?

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jmalicki 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I doubt it explains any reasonable fraction of this, but github moving from early adopter techies to general population "normies" would be a reason for the shift. I would expect it explains at least some increase in the use of em-dashes.

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mikkupikku 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Do general population normies really use em-dash, or do they just reach for the dash they see clearly printed on their keyboard?

	▲	zadikian 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think they're pressing the default dash (actually a hyphen) twice, and that autocompletes to a single em dash.

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nerevarthelame 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can remove em dashes from the analysis and the trend is still there: newly created accounts are still 6X more likely to use the remaining LLM indicators (arrows and bullets, p = 0.00027).

Ellipses were never part of the analysis.

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