green_goober

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by green_goober 3y ago
> I didn't come up with this rice farmer and cowboy example and I do not advocate for it as it is a complete nonsense Sorry my bad, I thought you were the same person as the original commenter I was replying to.
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by green_goober 3y ago
I get your point, but your entire point is just built on speculation. > As you can see from the above: Chinese and American students reacted very differently to a change (a difficult study exercise). This is one framing. Another framin
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by green_goober 3y ago
My comment was sarcasm. OP is being a defeatist to anyone trying to explain that, yes, actually, you can measure these things. You don't need the media to spoonfeed you fake information.
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by green_goober 3y ago
Then I guess nothing is truly measureable and we should never attempt to make predictions.
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by green_goober 3y ago
Really? Wouldn't a better argument be that Americans have experienced constant positive social progress and stability, which reinforces the American mindset that "change is good". Whereas China has undergone nearly two centur
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by green_goober 3y ago
You can always use leading indicators (unemployment, inflation) to estimate future car sales, then extrapolate the EV market share based on current growth numbers. It's not perfect but it's not like large institutions somehow have
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by green_goober 3y ago
This is really reductive to the point of being actually harmful when trying to understand the culture difference. > a family history of 50 generations of tending to a rice field? While yes, I am sure that there are many peasant people wh
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by green_goober 3y ago
You can always read financial reports like 10-Ks and see what the company says and what their number say. Numbers like that don't really lie. The media has never been a "source of truth" at the best they act as watchdogs, at