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The words “good” and “bad” occur 390 times in Project Hail Mary.
The word good appears in every chapter, and the word bad appears in 25 chapters.
The word good appears 296 times in total: 58 times in Earth sections and 238 times in Space sections.
The word bad appears 94 times in total: 10 times in Earth sections and 84 times in Space sections.
The word bad does occur proportionally more in Space sections than in Earth sections and this is statistically significant (p = 0.046) although weak (Cramér’s V = 0.101).
The word good is spoken by Bob Reddell, Dimitri (7 times), Dr. Browne, Dr. Lokken (2 times), DuBois, Grace (17 times in Earth sections and 38 times in Space sections), Ilyukhina (4 times), Marissa, Ms. Xi, Sandra Elias (2 times), and Stratt (9 times). Rocky says it 75 times.
The narrator uses good 12 times in Earth sections and 125 times in Space sections.
The word bad is spoken by Grace (3 times in Earth sections, 22 times in Space sections), Leclerc, Marissa (2 times), Sandra Elias, and Shapiro. Rocky says it 25 times.
The narrator uses bad 2 times in Earth sections and 37 times in Space sections.
Here’s a visualization of the relative frequencies of each word across all sections and chapters of the book. The charts show “good” and “bad” respectively.
Each coloured bar represents a section and is colour-coded for Earth sections (green) and Space sections (purple).
The grey bars represent the chapters, which are marked with ticks and numbers.
The y-axis is the relative frequency, i.e. the proportion of tokens in that section (or chapter) that match (so a bar might be higher, even with fewer occurrences, if the section or chapter is shorter).
Oh my God it’s good!
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