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		rfw300 on July 6, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Open source code with profanity in comments is sta... I don’t think anyone is saying it’s causation, the correlation is in and of itself interesting!

bawolff on July 6, 2023 [–]

I mean i think the article is implying that. However i think the bigger thing is the correlation is misleading due to the sample being the long tail of github projects, which i dont think is representitive of "production" open source projects and certainly not software in general.

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