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One of the two factors in deciding whether a particular topic is primary for a given term is usage: whether it is highly likely—much more likely than any other single topic, and more likely than all the other topics combined—to be the topic sought when a reader searches for that term.
A typical question, therefore, is: what proportion of readers who land on a given disambiguation page are interested in a particular article linked there. Relevant information can usually be extracted from the clickstream dataset, but in rare cases a dedicated test can be performed.