We need to start issuing licenses to practice statistics. News editors, reporters, and other people with media access who don't understand statistics see a study showing a correlation between two events, they put it out to the public with an implication that there's a cause/effect relationship, and the underinformed public buys into it.
There's a correlation between buying high-priced luxury automobiles and being able to afford quality health care. That doesn't mean you should go out and buy an expensive car if you're having trouble paying for health care.
I had an internship in "the industry" for a few months, and I have a hard time believing one person was responsible for the bulk of leaks. I and my friends were all interns, so we had no reason to have screeners, but we had access to just about any movie in competition for awards. People seem to assume -- and news outlets seem to report -- that screener sharing is rare, but this assumption couldn't be farther from the truth. If the sharing makes its way to interns, it makes its way to everyone.
There may be "only so many" screeners out there, but sometimes so many is so many!
Do you know how many people broke their TV sets trying to kill the cockroach that crawls across the screen in the Orkin commercial?
But seriously, a lot of stations will run a news crawl during regular programming when something big happens. You'd still have to be a little dense to think those were real news items, but remember, this is the nation that made hits out of "Kangaroo Jack" and "Daddy Day Care."
Of course, when they get to element 118 (in significant quantities), "because we can" would be a perfectly good reason for creating a metalloid noble gas.
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We need to start issuing licenses to practice statistics. News editors, reporters, and other people with media access who don't understand statistics see a study showing a correlation between two events, they put it out to the public with an implication that there's a cause/effect relationship, and the underinformed public buys into it.
There's a correlation between buying high-priced luxury automobiles and being able to afford quality health care. That doesn't mean you should go out and buy an expensive car if you're having trouble paying for health care.
I predict a huge surge in subscriptions before people realize they misinterpreted the nickname.
I had an internship in "the industry" for a few months, and I have a hard time believing one person was responsible for the bulk of leaks. I and my friends were all interns, so we had no reason to have screeners, but we had access to just about any movie in competition for awards. People seem to assume -- and news outlets seem to report -- that screener sharing is rare, but this assumption couldn't be farther from the truth. If the sharing makes its way to interns, it makes its way to everyone.
There may be "only so many" screeners out there, but sometimes so many is so many!
A bumper sticker in my college's physics lab: Physicists Have Strange Quarks
Do you know how many people broke their TV sets trying to kill the cockroach that crawls across the screen in the Orkin commercial?
But seriously, a lot of stations will run a news crawl during regular programming when something big happens. You'd still have to be a little dense to think those were real news items, but remember, this is the nation that made hits out of "Kangaroo Jack" and "Daddy Day Care."
...the least impressive network on earth...
Less impressive than Pax?
They already named element 111. It's called Nitrogen.
Of course, when they get to element 118 (in significant quantities), "because we can" would be a perfectly good reason for creating a metalloid noble gas.
I was sort of hoping they'd never get around to giving 111 an official name. Unununium (Uuu) is just too good to get rid of.
Of course, corpulent humans prefer fried chickens, so it all evens out.