https://mobile.twitter.com/EnaPropaganDa/status/1371483518568660997
great argument that candyland was a brilliant solution to a particular problem but itâs undeniable that itâs a terrible game for typical children today.
If this is a pair of scissors then whatâs the bottom pick?
https://mobile.twitter.com/FredTaming/status/1370454331477028865
A brace of scissors, ezgame.
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Asking people how they feel about something has always been a terrible way to get insights into anything. Your answers back are always an impenetrable amalgamation of their actual feelings PLUS impacts of various social pressures on what people think theyâre supposed to feel PLUS impacts of various self imposed psychological barriers people have to accepting their own feelings.
Basically, these studies are exhibits in âgarbage in / garbage outâ theory.
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This is a good idea but you have to be on the lookout for governments that really are just seeking the most successful propaganda techniques to dupe the population into feeling good without raising taxes.
Driving this morning, saw a office building which was actually named â2400 Park Avenue Buildingâ and thought âbuildingâ is a dumb word, like imaging if we called a lawn mower a âmowingâ or phone a âtalkingâ
english is awful
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While I doubt sheâd agree with just how down on subjective measures your post about them was, then her team works with a ten point framework, of which I think only one is a subjective measure (might be two).
And, yeah, the motivations of the governments who want to work with it is also big factor in terms of how useful it actually then is.
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Those arenât analagous, though, like we might call a mound of mown grass a âmowingâ or âmowingsâ (compare âshavingsâ) and we will give someone a talking-to etc. Itâs called a building because itâs the product of an act of building, not a tool for building.
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Yeah. I think thereâs some happiness index out of Bhutan that is more stat heavy and less reliant on polling the masses.
it doesnât matter, either of those are dumb. building is a gerund. It should indicate the act, not the product.
Now do âshavingsâ, âleavingsâ, âmorning/eveningâ, âawningâ, ârailingâ etc.
yes thsoe are all bad
I think maybe youâre just confused about English lol.
wait, morning and evening arenât derrived from verbs/gerunds
how so
like if your point is âthis is how english worksâ I am not at all confused about that. pointing out that something is dumb and should be better is not the same as being confused by it.
The usual problem with composite indices is that if you combine 10 measures into an index, you actually have at least 9 subjective variables, being the weights you give the different components. This is actually why GDP is such a good measure. You can easily add up the production of a car and the production of a ballpoint pen, because the economy conveniently labels them with a common unit of value (the price) that you can just add up (but for inflationâŚ). Thereâs no obvious way to add producing a car and a year of life expectancy though. Iâm sure thereâs some process you can use, but itâs very very reasonable to be concerned that it imports intentional or subconscious bias into the output.