Python use growing or shrinking

[Erik Max Francis]

Terry Hancock wrote:

> >>> for k,v in kv:
> ...     print "%s\t%5d\t%5.1f%%" % (k, v, (float(v)/sum)*100)

It's tempting to scale them all as a percentage of a total, but it has a
lie-with-statistics flaw:  If you add more languages, it looks like the
ratings of all the others go down, even though that isn't the case.

Not that what we're measuring has much intrinsic value, anyway.

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