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There is no data to support your last paragraph. But it is fun to talk about how dumb the “other” people are.
by genghisjahn 5mo ago
There is no data to support your last paragraph. But it is fun to talk about how dumb the “other” people are.
- bell-cot 5mo agoI coulda added another "That I've seen" disclaimer to my second para. My dataset is just friends & family who I've seen "based on a true story" movies with, where I happened to know the history. The term to describe my "99%" isn't "dumb". It's "don't care".
- bombcar 5mo agoIt's all variations of Gell-Mann Amnesia. Any portrayal is a betrayal. Of course, if I'm going to talk about something I know deeply, I'm almost certainly going to begin with "this is all incorrect in the details, but correct in general" or similar.
- bell-cot 5mo ago> Any portrayal is a betrayal. For those sufficiently pedantic, true. OTOH, there's a rather wide spectrum in how well (say) Mitchell's Gone With the Wind, Ken Burns's The Civil War, and McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom portray the U.S. Civil War.