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Pretty informative presentation, but the last slides are misleading.

It makes sense that the frequency of the word representing a certain technology in different books throughout time is modeled by a normal distribution. However, because the reason why they were included in a text creates such a huge bias/mental trap, such frequency shouldn't be a relevant indicator to measure the "sex appeal" of an industry.



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