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Before anyone takes this too seriously -- and it is surely too late for that -- I should point out that they did nothing to disambiguate the length of the movie

Before anyone takes this too seriously -- and it is surely too late for that -- I should point out that they did nothing to disambiguate the length of the movie. It may not be the coughgeist but the ... er ... timegeist (they should have a german word for it). Anyway, the point is, coughs per hour would help us know if audiences simply favor longer or shorter movies at different points in time.

waffl 5y ago
The German word for 'time' is 'Zeit', so that would be 'Zeitgeist' :)
- hhmc 5y ago
  Wouldn't want to leave the joke unexplained now, would we
  - bhaak 5y ago
    waffl is likely a German speaker. So of course not. German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions.
    - Garlef 5y ago
      > German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions. This should have been, "German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions, can they?", should it?
  - enkid 5y ago
    As a non-German speaker I found the joke about the joke informative and humorous.
    - cfcosta 5y ago
      Same, I then went back to the original comment and thought "damn, that's a clever joke".
  - willis936 5y ago
    There's a metajoke in here somewhere. https://youtu.be/llE7wT1BKt8 https://youtu.be/llE7wT1BKt8
obfuscator 5y ago
Dauergeist [dowr-ghaist] = Durationgeist :)
JoBrad 5y ago
That still requires some calculating before comparing movies, since it's much harder to compare a short film to a bladder buster. Using an average runtime as standard length F, then calculating coughs (C) per F would yield a value that can be more easily compared between films, regardless of length.
edmcnulty101 5y ago
They said they normalized the cough count, which I'm assuming means time adjusted?
- theejazz 5y ago
  > We calculate the Coughgeist for each year by determining the median expulsion count of that year’s nominees and then normalizing it. Probably adjusted for the number of nominees per year
  - edmcnulty101 5y ago
    Ah missed that. They normalize for the coughgeist not the number of movie coughs.

waffl 5y ago

The German word for 'time' is 'Zeit', so that would be 'Zeitgeist' :)

hhmc 5y ago
Wouldn't want to leave the joke unexplained now, would we
- bhaak 5y ago
  waffl is likely a German speaker. So of course not. German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions.
  - Garlef 5y ago
    > German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions. This should have been, "German speakers also can't resist replying to rhetorical questions, can they?", should it?
- enkid 5y ago
  As a non-German speaker I found the joke about the joke informative and humorous.
  - cfcosta 5y ago
    Same, I then went back to the original comment and thought "damn, that's a clever joke".
- willis936 5y ago
  There's a metajoke in here somewhere. https://youtu.be/llE7wT1BKt8 https://youtu.be/llE7wT1BKt8

obfuscator 5y ago

Dauergeist [dowr-ghaist] = Durationgeist :)

JoBrad 5y ago

That still requires some calculating before comparing movies, since it's much harder to compare a short film to a bladder buster. Using an average runtime as standard length F, then calculating coughs (C) per F would yield a value that can be more easily compared between films, regardless of length.

edmcnulty101 5y ago

They said they normalized the cough count, which I'm assuming means time adjusted?

theejazz 5y ago
> We calculate the Coughgeist for each year by determining the median expulsion count of that year’s nominees and then normalizing it. Probably adjusted for the number of nominees per year
- edmcnulty101 5y ago
  Ah missed that. They normalize for the coughgeist not the number of movie coughs.