Number of google hits for “childfree”: 1,350,000.
Number of google hits for “grandchildfree”: 2,380.
Number of google hits for “childfree”: 1,350,000.
Number of google hits for “grandchildfree”: 2,380.
Oct 23 2009
As I work my way through SuperFreakonomics, I'm starting to take back my claim that it's better than Freakonomics. It seems to have the same strength and the same weakness. The strength is its focus on incentives and facts to back up its claims. Its weakness is that it sometimes misses the big picture. On top of th...
Oct 23 2009
I was against the bailouts from day one, and I have not changed that position. Government spent my money without my permission on bailing out AIG, Goldman, and the rest. I won't repeat my references to Henry Paulson as a thug, since that term gives offense. Let's just say that for whatever reason, the government dec...
Oct 23 2009
Number of google hits for "childfree": 1,350,000.Number of google hits for "grandchildfree": 2,380.
READER COMMENTS
Chris
Oct 23 2009 at 5:30pm
Interestingly, the first two hits are for
“… Grandchild! Free …”
phineas
Oct 24 2009 at 1:23am
For any google search, the so-called “number of google hits” reported at the top of the google page is meaningless and misleading.
When you search for the phrase “Bryan Caplan”, google declares 87,000 pages associated with that search, but if you search for:
“Bryan Caplan” -econlog
(i.e. pages containing “Bryan Caplan” and NOT containing the word econlog), google declares 256,000 associated pages.
When google declares the 87,000 associated pages, it only gives you access to 700 or 800 of them. The other 86,000 associated pages essentially don’t exist. Or the great majority of them don’t the phrase “Bryan Caplan”. Or more exactly, the number 87,000 is just devoid of meaning. It’s especially devoid of meaning for reported associated pages numbering in the hundreds of thousands or millions, as is the case for “childfree”.
John
Oct 24 2009 at 12:27pm
Childfree is PC for childless. My child is childless… but then she is just 3.
Jacob
Oct 24 2009 at 12:42pm
Very clever Bryan. 🙂 I’ll be thinking about that one for some time.
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