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> All stories of extremely small batch but precisely crafted products seem to come out of Japan. idk. Most of my YouTube recommendations are exactly that but f

> All stories of extremely small batch but precisely crafted products seem to come out of Japan. idk. Most of my YouTube recommendations are exactly that but from all around the world lol. I can’t even say most are from Japan. I would be lying if I did. As a very simple example, I just watched a video about some candy company in Massachusetts that has been hand-making hard candy the same way for more than a hundred years. (To stay honest, I do tend to subscribe to channels where the entire purpose is to showcase niche things from all around the world. Great Big Story, for example.)

fsckboy 3y ago
japan is roughly 1.5% of the world population. where do they stack up in your video feed (maybe even leave out half the world's population, so call it 3%)?
- bluepod4 3y ago
  Uhh, not sure if you misinterpreted what I said. I said that most of the videos in my feed aren’t Japan-related.
  - fsckboy 3y ago
    i'm saying that because it's a small number of people, most of them shouldn't be Japan related. but if the Japan related topics are more than 3% of your feed, then Japan is by estimation overrepresented, i.e. Japan likely does have a culture of exacting artisanship, i.e. opposite of what you are providing evidence for.
    - bluepod4 3y ago
      We’re not saying the opposite actually. I agree with what you’re saying, BUT: > idk. Most of my YouTube recommendations are exactly that but from all around the world lol. I can’t even say most are from Japan. I would be lying if I did. “Exactly that” = small batch, artisan videos “From all around the world lol” = not only from Japan “I can’t even say that most are from Japan” = Most of the videos on my feed aren’t from Japan I think you’re hung up on the “exactly that” part. I didn’t say “most of my YouTube recommendations are small batch, artisan videos from Japan and the rest are from all around the world.” I said “most of my YouTube recommendations are small batch, artisan videos from all around the world.” I didn’t estimate how many videos are Japan-related. I didn’t need to. GP said that “all stories like this are from Japan”. I gave my opinion that he’s wrong based on my YouTube recommendations. Not all stories are from Japan. Even with your misinterpretation of my comment, the conclusion remains the same lol since it was a reply to GP. You seem to have read my comment without that context. Whether Japanese videos are overestimated (or underestimated which is probably closer to reality) in my feed is meaningless to the conversation that I was having with GP since the discussion (based on the highlighted quote from GP’s comment) was about whether all stories like that come from Japan. The conclusion is “no, not all stories like that come from Japan”. Thanks for trying to teach me basic statistics though, I guess!

fsckboy 3y ago

japan is roughly 1.5% of the world population. where do they stack up in your video feed (maybe even leave out half the world's population, so call it 3%)?

bluepod4 3y ago
Uhh, not sure if you misinterpreted what I said. I said that most of the videos in my feed aren’t Japan-related.
- fsckboy 3y ago
  i'm saying that because it's a small number of people, most of them shouldn't be Japan related. but if the Japan related topics are more than 3% of your feed, then Japan is by estimation overrepresented, i.e. Japan likely does have a culture of exacting artisanship, i.e. opposite of what you are providing evidence for.
  - bluepod4 3y ago
    We’re not saying the opposite actually. I agree with what you’re saying, BUT: > idk. Most of my YouTube recommendations are exactly that but from all around the world lol. I can’t even say most are from Japan. I would be lying if I did. “Exactly that” = small batch, artisan videos “From all around the world lol” = not only from Japan “I can’t even say that most are from Japan” = Most of the videos on my feed aren’t from Japan I think you’re hung up on the “exactly that” part. I didn’t say “most of my YouTube recommendations are small batch, artisan videos from Japan and the rest are from all around the world.” I said “most of my YouTube recommendations are small batch, artisan videos from all around the world.” I didn’t estimate how many videos are Japan-related. I didn’t need to. GP said that “all stories like this are from Japan”. I gave my opinion that he’s wrong based on my YouTube recommendations. Not all stories are from Japan. Even with your misinterpretation of my comment, the conclusion remains the same lol since it was a reply to GP. You seem to have read my comment without that context. Whether Japanese videos are overestimated (or underestimated which is probably closer to reality) in my feed is meaningless to the conversation that I was having with GP since the discussion (based on the highlighted quote from GP’s comment) was about whether all stories like that come from Japan. The conclusion is “no, not all stories like that come from Japan”. Thanks for trying to teach me basic statistics though, I guess!