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		tskaiser on Dec 22, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: My journey from high school to a feature in Forbes... While it is an outlier it is also proof that it is a poor system of measurement.

bcook on Dec 22, 2016 [–]

It is? I think the problem is how we (mis)interpret the data to mean anything more than what it actually says.

wlesieutre on Dec 22, 2016 | [–]

So what's the takeaway, "Repo stars are an accurate measurement of how many stars a repo has"?

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