Anyway...:
Search terms vs results on Wikipedia:
I've wondered for a while, based on probably flawed confirmation bias, that Wikipedia might have a bias of people wanting to know if other people are Jewish.
My brain made the connection that the "early life" heading was really the "is this person Jewish?" heading.
So, I've done some Google-fu to try to get a reasonable answer, the lazy way.
Search terms vs results on Wikipedia:
Search terms | "Jewish" | -"Jewish" |
---|---|---|
"Early life" | 1.08m | 14.2m |
-"Early life" | 61.6m | 866m |
That's a ratio of 57:1 of Wikipedia pages mentioning the term "Jewish" having no Early Life section to those that have an Early Life section, and 61:1 for non-Jewish-mentioning pages. That's probably not statistically significant. Let's assume it's not.
Ok. That's not too bad. Oh wait... That also includes lots of pages that aren't even about people.
Now let's filter out some noise by adding the search term "living people" which is a category for... living people.
Search terms | "Jewish" "living people" | -"Jewish" "living people" |
---|---|---|
"Early life" | 53.3k | 141k. |
-"Early life" | 217k | 12.3m |
That's a ratio of about 4:1 of Wikipedia's "living people" pages mentioning the term "Jewish" having no Early Life section to those that have an Early Life section, and 87:1 for non-Jewish-mentioning pages.
So, what's up with that? People really seem to want to know if people are Jewish.
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