Physicists Uncover TV Show Biases

Tsalg writes "Interesting to see what scientists can uncover from watching one of the silliest TV shows in Europe, where singers represent countries in a contest, and then countries vote for.. for what exactly? Well it was reported in a Nature article where the show was used as a barometer of European nations' feelings about their neighbours, that Britain is in harmony with Europe, Nordic countries fancy each others' stars, and France is out on a limb."

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[stlhawkeye]

The American "Revolution" that didn't take place in a whole country and totally changed the way of government for it, but instead happened on a different continent, and didn't scratch the British monarchy in the slightest? Maybe you take your little uprising in the backwoods a tad too seriously? Ignoring how that would have ended if the French hadn't helped you...

What does that have to do with my point? Which was that France is not on the cutting edge of progress in the world, nor does it have a history of being so. It sometimes is, sometimes is not. It sometimes is successful and sometimes missteps. Every nation has in its history abundant examples of bad decisions, poor leadership, and difficult periods. To imply that any nation is and always has been the example that the rest of the world is trying to catch up to is asinine. I can pretty much cut and paste this comment to every response to my post, since it's typical Slashdot fare of attacking ancillary data in a manner that does not invalidate my point.

If somebody disagrees with me point, provide counter-arguments.

didn't scratch the British monarchy in the slightest?

This statement is laughable. Provide some support for this?

Maybe you take your little uprising in the backwoods a tad too seriously?

Well, it did lead to the founding of the country that I live in, so, yeah, I don't feel compelled to wave my hand dismissively at it. I'm puzzled as to why you seem to cavalier in doing so. Do you really think that the United States and its impact on the world can be summed up as a negligable wave in the history of humanity, summed up as a "backwoods uprising" in an empire? Your post is indeed interesting in its blind naivete.