Genovese Jeremy E C
1 Cleveland State University.
Psychol Rep. 2015 Dec;117(3):940-3. doi: 10.2466/17.PR0.117c27z8. Epub 2015 Nov 23.
The Google Ngram Viewer shows the frequency of words in a large corpus of books over two centuries. In this study, the names of two pseudosciences, astrology and phrenology, were compared. An interesting pattern emerged. While the level of interest in astrology remained relatively stable over the course of two centuries, interest in phrenology rose rapidly in the early 1800s but then declined. Reasons for this pattern are discussed.
谷歌图书词频统计器展示了两个多世纪以来大量书籍语料库中词汇的出现频率。在这项研究中，对两种伪科学——占星术和颅相学的名称进行了比较。一种有趣的模式出现了。在两个世纪的时间里，对占星术的兴趣水平相对保持稳定，而对颅相学的兴趣在19世纪初迅速上升，但随后下降。本文讨论了这种模式出现的原因。
