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r/ExplainBothSides
A place to learn where each side is coming from
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Would you like someone to explain *both* sides of a controversial issue to you? Well, this is the place to ask.
“Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The purpose of ExplainBothSides is to create opportunities to present both sides of a controversial issue. Often (perhaps even typically) the result of exp...
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March 7, 2017
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Total Words in Subreddit
4,421,306
Total Words in Reddit
119,924,722,855
Rank↕ | Word↕ | Occurrences in Subreddit | Total Occurrences | Rate in Subreddit (per 1M words) | Rate in Reddit (per 1M words) | Ratio (Sub Rate / Reddit Rate) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | explainbothsides explainbothsides | 25,250 | 36,985 | 5711.0 | 0.3 | 18517.99 |
| #2 | 9,541 | 253,815 | 2158.0 | 2.1 | 1019.61 | |
| #3 | 4,268 | 172,281 | 965.3 | 1.4 | 671.96 | |
| #4 | 5,646 | 232,539 | 1277.0 | 1.9 | 658.57 | |
| #5 | 4,280 | 409,096 | 968.0 | 3.4 | 283.78 | |
| #6 | 10,861 | 1,198,877 | 2456.5 | 10.0 | 245.73 | |
| #7 | 4,326 | 564,009 | 978.4 | 4.7 | 208.05 | |
| #8 | 9,960 | 1,447,550 | 2252.7 | 12.1 | 186.63 | |
| #9 | 5,681 | 880,644 | 1284.9 | 7.3 | 174.98 | |
| #10 | 4,267 | 730,079 | 965.1 | 6.1 | 158.53 | |
| #11 | 1,107 | 200,106 | 250.4 | 1.7 | 150.05 | |
| #12 | 99 | 18,980 | 22.4 | 0.2 | 141.48 | |
| #13 | 5,654 | 1,095,460 | 1278.8 | 9.1 | 140.00 | |
| #14 | 5,657 | 1,143,982 | 1279.5 | 9.5 | 134.13 | |
| #15 | 217 | 45,534 | 49.1 | 0.4 | 129.27 | |
| #16 | 5,652 | 1,273,975 | 1278.4 | 10.6 | 120.34 | |
| #17 | 173 | 41,476 | 39.1 | 0.3 | 113.14 | |
| #18 | 5,674 | 1,388,156 | 1283.3 | 11.6 | 110.87 | |
| #19 | 9,601 | 2,384,273 | 2171.5 | 19.9 | 109.22 | |
| #20 | 442 | 115,365 | 100.0 | 1.0 | 103.92 | |
| #21 | 9,625 | 2,799,042 | 2177.0 | 23.3 | 93.27 | |
| #22 | 1,556 | 524,937 | 351.9 | 4.4 | 80.40 | |
| #23 | 1,250 | 524,743 | 282.7 | 4.4 | 64.61 | |
| #24 | 497 | 224,120 | 112.4 | 1.9 | 60.15 | |
| #25 | 11,605 | 5,301,880 | 2624.8 | 44.2 | 59.37 | |
| #26 | 44 | 21,137 | 10.0 | 0.2 | 56.46 | |
| #27 | 57 | 27,944 | 12.9 | 0.2 | 55.33 | |
| #28 | 12,493 | 6,765,394 | 2825.6 | 56.4 | 50.09 | |
| #29 | 74 | 41,457 | 16.7 | 0.3 | 48.42 | |
| #30 | 30 | 17,328 | 6.8 | 0.1 | 46.96 | |
| #31 | 36 | 20,810 | 8.1 | 0.2 | 46.92 | |
| #32 | 10,346 | 6,042,398 | 2340.0 | 50.4 | 46.44 | |
| #33 | 66 | 38,970 | 14.9 | 0.3 | 45.94 | |
| #34 | 49 | 29,424 | 11.1 | 0.2 | 45.17 | |
| #35 | 43 | 25,995 | 9.7 | 0.2 | 44.87 | |
| #36 | 397 | 240,053 | 89.8 | 2.0 | 44.86 | |
| #37 | 110 | 67,193 | 24.9 | 0.6 | 44.40 | |
| #38 | 147 | 92,853 | 33.2 | 0.8 | 42.94 | |
| #39 | 404 | 263,587 | 91.4 | 2.2 | 41.57 | |
| #40 | 1,113 | 728,966 | 251.7 | 6.1 | 41.41 | |
| #41 | 665 | 447,533 | 150.4 | 3.7 | 40.30 | |
| #42 | 37 | 25,859 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 38.81 | |
| #43 | 394 | 277,636 | 89.1 | 2.3 | 38.49 | |
| #44 | 44 | 31,039 | 10.0 | 0.3 | 38.45 | |
| #45 | 37 | 27,034 | 8.4 | 0.2 | 37.12 | |
| #46 | 64 | 46,963 | 14.5 | 0.4 | 36.96 | |
| #47 | 5,733 | 4,284,568 | 1296.7 | 35.7 | 36.29 | |
| #48 | 832 | 628,481 | 188.2 | 5.2 | 35.91 | |
| #49 | 589 | 447,610 | 133.2 | 3.7 | 35.69 | |
| #50 | 32 | 25,341 | 7.2 | 0.2 | 34.25 |
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