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drollcrops commented on Analysis of whether IMDB ratings suffer recency bias kyso.io/KyleOS/movies... · Posted by u/eoinmurray92

olalonde · 7 years ago

Doesn't this analysis rest on the assumption that movies are equally good each year? Maybe I suffer from nostalgia (or survivorship bias) but I'm not sure this is a good assumption.

drollcrops · 7 years ago

Good is relative. And you could easily rabbit hole on this. Do people have the same sense of quality? Have people changed their rating scale based on production/effects quality? Etc etc. Probably best to just take the subjective rating.

drollcrops commented on Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) chinafile.com/reporting-o... · Posted by u/johnny313

jackvalentine · 8 years ago

> What advantage does it hold over normal sales?

Same reason as gangs requiring a new initiate to kill someone. If you have someone expose themselves doing something taboo and you yourself do it too, then a mutual bond is built.

The article says as much.

drollcrops · 8 years ago

It's far more simple than that. Many men absolutely love sex with new women. Humans are heavily social, and moral boundaries are strongly influenced by those that surround them. It is much easier to break certain moral boundaries when those around you also break them, and this gives men an opportunity to fulfill their desires.

drollcrops commented on Booze, Sex, and the Dark Art of Dealmaking in China (2015) chinafile.com/reporting-o... · Posted by u/johnny313

setr · 8 years ago

I find it hard to imagine most social norms, and much of what we consider to be good/bad behavior, is reliant on what we're "wired" towards; influenced by, sure, but I would imagine most of it is along the lines of "regardless of human nature, this is the way we should operate". Respecting monogamy, at least in America, is one of those things: regardless of how we naturally would like to behave, we are expected to (and promise to) respect the sanctity of marriage. That one fails to is not excused by our wiring; we obviously should be capable of exceeding that. It is, supposedly, one of those abilities that make humans as a species notable.

And if we go to an extreme, that you operate solely on your wiring and nothing else... well, you're hardly a modern human at that point.

drollcrops · 8 years ago

> Respecting monogamy, at least in America, is one of those things: regardless of how we naturally would like to behave, we are expected to (and promise to) respect the sanctity of marriage.

When did residing in a particular nation-state define such specific moral boundaries? Are you saying if I move to China I can cheat on my spouse because that's how things are done there? It seems you are applying your own morals to 300 million members of a very diverse group of people.