I’m unexpectedly bonding easily with the Stoics — “to such a person, glasses are amazing; to everyone else, a glass is just a glass, and it is half empty to boot.”pic.twitter.com/aBnJYHCuKx
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Here's what Google N-Grams says about the Stoics (for British English only). A peak at the beginning of mid-Victorian, a peak before WW1, a peak before (just at) the beginning of the Great Depression, a peak in late 1950s. All associated, in fact, with boom, luxury and peace.pic.twitter.com/ebhnY5Gl3G
Interesting! But also, I wouldn't call it a "peak" in the late 1950s — it only looks like one because of the very noticeable dip in the early 1940s, which *might* have been less about a loss of interest & more an understandable shift to ultra-salient current events
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The "peaks" don't seem credible; they're likely artifacts of the smoothing algorithm run on a tiny sample size. Unsmoothed, the spikes look random to me, modulated by a broad period of high relative frequency 1880-1950.pic.twitter.com/NU2N5NXrCn
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Very nice!—I absolutely agree. Didn't notice the google smoothing.
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