a) Sorry, Ken, I thought most people would be familiar with Google Ngrams. The y-axis is the proportion that your word (psychology, in this case) represents among all words in the Google Books database.
b) You can play with Ngrams to your heart's content. https://books.google.com/ngrams/ You will find, if you try to do what you asked me to, that "history" overwhelms the others by quite a margin. Here's a tip: if you want to "stem" words (capture all words than begin with "psycholog"), you don't use an * but the suffix _INF (for "inflection"). So, psycholog_INF. This doesn't make sense with physics, though, because we use the word "physical" all the time in contexts have nothing to do with physics. Best, Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 [email protected] http://www.yorku.ca/christo > On Oct 31, 2014, at 8:43 PM, Ken Steele <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Yo Chris: > > I hate to be perspicuous but: > > a: Please identify the y-axis. > > Is this explanations of murders in pulp fiction? > Explantions of career failure in business enterprises? > Darwinian accounts of success in hard goods or real property? > Amounts of candy I will pass out to tonight? > .... > > b: Please provide comparative accounts on that measure from relevant accounts > from Biology, Sociology, Physics, and History. > > Otherwise, you scared me. > > Ken > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] > Professor > Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 > USA > --------------------------------------------------------------- > >> On 10/31/2014 4:25 PM, Christopher Green wrote: >> >> Psychology is over. Has been for 85 years. The peak was 1930. >> Since about 1940, however, the “psychological” has been more >> popular than “psychology” itself. >> Even the “psychological,” however, has been falling since the >> late 1970s. >> >> >> Happy Halloween! >> >> Chris >> ….. >> Christopher D Green >> Department of Psychology >> York University >> Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 >> Canada >> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://www.yorku.ca/christo >> ………………………………... > > > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62bd92&n=T&l=tips&o=39771 > or send a blank email to > leave-39771-430248.781165b5ef80a3cd2b14721caf62b...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=39779 or send a blank email to leave-39779-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
