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Tldr: there is no significant correlation between having an anime profile and amount of GitHub activity.

A few days ago HN had a thread extolling the virtues of publishing negative results... And here we are!

FWIW, I think it may be statistically-significant eyeballing the graph. Activities, being counts bounded at 0, can't be normal, and these are very non-normal data, so the t-test is wrong; if he wanted a p-value, https://docs.scipy.org/doc/scipy/reference/generated/scipy.s... would've been more appropriate, and I'd bet the p-value will be noticeably smaller.

Wouldn't a better coder get it right the first time, with less churn and bug fixes, resulting in less GitHub activity? ;)

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