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Interesting how the thesis of the article is the exact opposite of the thesis of this one, which was posted to HN a few days ago:

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/humans-are-wired-for-nega...

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That article talks about vocabulary. One would naturally assume that vocabulary correlates with frequency of usage, but that may not be the case.

This article talks about frequency of usage. Perhaps someone can dig deeper and figure out where they get their frequency of usage data from?

If they are scanning novels and lyrics in various languages, there is also an interpretation that musicians and writers have in general written more positive words in their work. This can be part of art instead of something inherit to language.

If you're really confused, the aeon one is the better one scientifically, and reviews a much larger array of science from a number of domains, rather than scanning google books.

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