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batye
10/11/2016 1:35:41 PM
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Re: Hulu Research
@clrmoney interesting point, I would say yes and no as it all depends :)
mhhf1ve
10/11/2016 4:03:48 PM
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Why people lie about watching TV shows...
@afwriter - I don't think this survey is saying that people try to pretend to have a conversation about a particular show, but it's saying that people lie about having seen a few episodes. eg. "Yah, I watched the first few episodes of Game of Thrones, but I didn't really get into it." (When they in fact have never seen the show at all.)
Part of the reasoning behind these lies is.. a kind of class-ism. If you don't have an HBO account or subscribe to Netflix, then you might be finanically less well-off than your co-workers (and who wants to admit to that?).
Try to hang out with co-workers nowadays without a smartphone... if you use a flip phone now, you're so uncool (or poor).
mhhf1ve
10/11/2016 4:18:04 PM
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409 scripted TV shows...
I wonder how much the "scripted TV show" stats have grown over the years..? Add on the "Reality TV" shows, and it's amazing how much TV is available now.
JohnBarnes
10/12/2016 7:17:30 AM
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Re: Spoilers
vnewman,
I still mostly don't watch TV, but I'm in a high-pressure boiler room sales environment where nobody hangs out at the water cooler (at least not if they're stayingemployed). My wife bingewatches years afterward. But both of us prefer to spend our break time at work somewhere quietly away from coworkers.
TV is much better than it used to be, which means there's more to talk about, but it's still TV; I thought hi-def would make it less annoying (I was always bothered by the unfocusing the eyes you had to do to watch old TV screens; reminded me too much of hypnosis). But as it turns out, all it's done is make me more physically comfortable while being annoyed at a higher esthetic level.
JohnBarnes
10/12/2016 7:21:45 AM
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Re: Spoilers
adi,
Also, people are dumber. Recognition vocabulary among high school grads is down 60% since 1960, usage vocabulary around 35%. The narrative arts' plot variety has all been reduced down to boy-meets-girl, hero's-journey, and buffoon's holiday, all of which appeal mainly to younger people, from the 12-15 common plots of the middle of the last century (probably because people aren't interested in growing up anymore and nobody really wants them to).
JohnBarnes
10/12/2016 7:26:05 AM
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Re: Why people lie about watching TV shows...
mhhf1ve,
Used to be if you asked people what magazines they read, Harpers, the Atlantic, and Saturday Review all beat out TV Guide, Readers Digest, and the National Enquirer, but the sales told a different story. Nowadays people spend hours keeping up with the Kardashians but talking about the latest HBO high-profile scripted series.
batye
10/13/2016 12:40:46 PM
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Re: Why people lie about watching TV shows...
@mhhf1ve interesting point... but to each his own I'm still using old non-smart nokia phone with great battery life :)
batye
10/13/2016 12:43:40 PM
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Re: 409 scripted TV shows...
@mhhf1ve interesting point... in my mind everything is scripted this days on tv... even most of the "live" shows :) - how I see it...
elizabethv
10/14/2016 8:43:57 AM
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So confused...
I mean, yeah, I know people lie. But I had no idea people lie about seeing TV shows. Why is this a big deal? I guess I was never one to try hard to fit in with the group. But how do you fake having seen a TV show? Unless you go and read the wiki on the TV show right after saying you saw it. Sounds like a waste of time to me.....
Re: Why people lie about watching TV shows...
@John: Nate Silver talked about this effect some years ago and its impact on political polling. I forget the exact term he used, but I believe it was along the lines of the "genteel southerner effect". The idea is that the respondent -- who perceives his or her views to be in the minority and perhaps offensive to some -- answers in what he or she believes to be a more socially acceptable way (thus skewing the polls).
(Also known as, as I'm sure you're aware, as "the spiral of silence".)
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