Table 2 95% confidence intervals for the percentage of quantitative papers in the 2012 study (Jenset and McGillivray, 2017) based on a sample of historical linguistics articles published in 2012 and in this study using a sample of articles published in 2019.

From: Quantifying the quantitative (re-)turn in historical linguistics

 

Percentage of quantitative papers

95% confidence interval

Jenset and McGillivray (2017)—2012 sample

40%

[28%,52%]

This study—2019 sample

57%

[44%,70%]

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