Linguistic dark matter

[Joel S. Berson]

At 12/18/2010 11:35 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>The more I think of it, the more it seems like just another publicity stunt
>carried out by people who don't much care that they don't know what they're
>doing.
>
>And if the results are meaningless, it doesn't matter, because you can still
>listen to your mp3s.

But I think it does matter, Jon, if future researchers start relying
on questionable data.

Joel

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