Principle of indifference

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Principle of indifference

Quality:

Principle of indifference - in probability theory, a rule for assigning epistemic probabilities. Article “Principle of indifference” in English Wikipedia has 22.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 8 references and 8 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 1.16 points.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that (English) language version.

In June 2025 the article “Principle of indifference” was edited by 1 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 1 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Principle of indifference”, its content was written by 65 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 116 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 163 times in English Wikipedia and cited 227 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #4172 in January 2004
  • Global: #14586 in January 2004

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #281582 in December 2021
  • Global: #424756 in December 2021

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1English (en)
Principle of indifference
22.0949
2Japanese (ja)
等確率の原理
19.0165
3Spanish (es)
Principio de indiferencia
12.7165
4Persian (fa)
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
12.3239
5Korean (ko)
무차별 원리
9.8876
6Hebrew (he)
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
7.3725
7German (de)
Indifferenzprinzip
3.6387
8Basque (eu)
Indiferentzia-printzipio
1.0739
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "Principle of indifference" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Principle of indifference
368 819
2Japanese (ja)
等確率の原理
59 439
3German (de)
Indifferenzprinzip
58 730
4Spanish (es)
Principio de indiferencia
8 891
5Hebrew (he)
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
3 447
6Korean (ko)
무차별 원리
2 435
7Basque (eu)
Indiferentzia-printzipio
769
8Persian (fa)
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
112
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "Principle of indifference" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
Principle of indifference
2 100
2Japanese (ja)
等確率の原理
299
3German (de)
Indifferenzprinzip
118
4Korean (ko)
무차별 원리
78
5Spanish (es)
Principio de indiferencia
54
6Hebrew (he)
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
26
7Persian (fa)
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
13
8Basque (eu)
Indiferentzia-printzipio
8
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "Principle of indifference" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Principle of indifference
65
2German (de)
Indifferenzprinzip
19
3Japanese (ja)
等確率の原理
13
4Spanish (es)
Principio de indiferencia
8
5Hebrew (he)
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
8
6Basque (eu)
Indiferentzia-printzipio
1
7Persian (fa)
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
1
8Korean (ko)
무차별 원리
1
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "Principle of indifference" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
Principle of indifference
1
2German (de)
Indifferenzprinzip
0
3Spanish (es)
Principio de indiferencia
0
4Basque (eu)
Indiferentzia-printzipio
0
5Persian (fa)
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
0
6Hebrew (he)
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
0
7Japanese (ja)
等確率の原理
0
8Korean (ko)
무차별 원리
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "Principle of indifference" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
Principle of indifference
163
2Japanese (ja)
等確率の原理
29
3German (de)
Indifferenzprinzip
17
4Spanish (es)
Principio de indiferencia
7
5Hebrew (he)
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
5
6Korean (ko)
무차별 원리
4
7Basque (eu)
Indiferentzia-printzipio
2
8Persian (fa)
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
0
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Scores

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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
deGerman
Indifferenzprinzip
enEnglish
Principle of indifference
esSpanish
Principio de indiferencia
euBasque
Indiferentzia-printzipio
faPersian
اصل بی‌تفاوتی
heHebrew
עקרון האדישות (סטטיסטיקה)
jaJapanese
等確率の原理
koKorean
무차별 원리

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#281582
12.2021
Global:
#424756
12.2021

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#4172
01.2004
Global:
#14586
01.2004

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on Principle of indifference from Wikipedia articles about Bertrand paradox, Prior probability, Ergodic theory, Statistical test and Classical definition of probability. Whereas reading the article about Principle of indifference people most often go to Wikipedia articles on Prior probability, Uncertainty quantification, Wine/water paradox, Bayesian probability and Principle of transformation groups.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

List of Wikipedia articles in different languages (starting with the most popular):

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