One methodology is to apply Google search statistics to their terminology:
Alas, most of their terms typically don't have enough volume to allow the use of Google Insights for Search. However I can do this:
...and this:
In other cases, I'll have to use static figures.
Memetics | Count | Cultural evolution | Count |
---|---|---|---|
"memetic drift" | 9,230 | "cultural drift" | 53,500 |
"meme" | 56,900,000 | "cultural variant" | 10,600 |
"memetics" | 756,000 | "cultural evolution" | 1,020,000 |
Of course, science is more than just a populatity contest - and there are about a million other ways in which this methodology is limited.
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