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A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

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50% right is pretty good for a prospective politician, right?

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Sep 4, 2011

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zoux posted:

Deputy Chief Technical Officer.
= Assistant

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Sep 4, 2011

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SedanChair posted:

What?? Now I'm like a dog who gets whacked 15 minutes after he fucks up. WHAT DID I DO
Don't bark at the funny man!

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Sep 4, 2011

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Samurai Quack posted:

I was just mentioning that. So many people saw that movie and think it's such a cultured reference to say they are like the 300, apparently never picking up on the fact that they lose
Give it another 150 years and their descendents will be rolling over their enemies like Alexander. :smuggo:

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Discendo Vox posted:

quantity of speech alone isn't enough to be persuasive.
Are you sure? Hasn't it been shown that simply being more familiar with a factoid increases the chance of you believing it to be true, and thus repetition of a factoid will make it a fact in many people's eyes?

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Discendo Vox posted:

I just took a semester in graduate level persuasion theory, so let me promise you, absolutely not. Repetition can have a strengthening effect on the persuasive effect of some messages some of the time, but it is also able to have the reverse effect, even when the message is initially agreeable.
Can you explain the mechanics behind the latter? It's easy to understand why the former would work, not so much the latter.

Discendo Vox posted:

Similarly, the repetition of a fact can trigger counterarguing all on its own.
Do the counter-arguments get airtime though?

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Mister Fister posted:

I don't know who's more cynical, the people who post in this thread or the overwhelming majority of goons in the Community thread who bet their lives that a meteor was more likely to hit the earth in the next hour than the show coming back (it came back :smug:), but in any case, i hope SOMETHING positive comes out of this superpac. What that something is, I dunno, but I don't think it's healthy to be so negative.
Each hour, ~750 meteors enter the Earth's atmosphere, so maybe they were right.

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Who What Now posted:

Well that's because you're an idiot. HTH
No, you're just a liberal.

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Anticheese posted:

I live in the same general area as Mount Maunganui. That second photo seriously distorts the scale of the mountain (the bloody thing is only a couple hundred metres above sea level)
I have a hard time imagining how the second photo could be seriously distorting the "mountain" to look bigger than it is, it hardly looks like anything as is. Maybe if you assumed what you were seeing was the last leg up to the summit, with a lot of ground already covered. And I'm saying this as someone from a country where the highest peak is 200 feet below that one.

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