Where do people actually change their minds — which venues, at what rate?

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Answer

Rates per venue with denominators: mailing lists 3.0 per mille, forums 2.3, Hacker News 2.2, reddit comments 1.0 (H1 2025).

Methodology

scry_recipe('changed_my_mind') is a shared, measured stance instrument — a curated term-set with a false-positive profile — usable as a plain SQL predicate. Rate = countIf over count() inside a window: population measurement, not retrieval, and the denominator ships with the answer. Swap in hedging, gratitude, or a concept recipe; the shape is unchanged.

Last verified: 2026-08-28

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SELECT relation, round(countIf(scry_recipe('changed_my_mind')) / count() * 1000, 2) AS per_mille, count() AS denominator FROM internet.text WHERE relation IN ('hackernews.items','reddit.comments','forums.posts','mailing_lists.messages') AND ts >= '2025-01-01' AND ts < '2025-07-01' GROUP BY relation ORDER BY per_mille DESC LIMIT 10

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