That’s one case, yes. Think of a situation where the causal effect is only responsible for a small portion of the observed outcomes, so the gross correlation could even run backwards due to other factors despite known causation in part of the sample.

Or there could be other causal factors stemming from the original cause that push back the observed correlation which need to be accounted for. Certain genes are known to cause breast cancer at such a high rate that everyone who screens positive for them might choose to get double mastectomies, causing breast cancer rates to actually fall among that group. I don’t think this is actually true, but it’s a hypothetical example of a case where no or even reverse correlation might exist despite known and strong causation.

rhino = nose , rhinoplasty etc : )

But I would be shocked if there were no roadkill rhinos, a couple of years ago there was a roadkill giraffe in Kruger! People behave terribly within nature reserves.

I’m convinced. Roman for sure.

Love this project

Ordem e progreso

First is clearly unreachable, they gotta try the second harder.

Too bad that top one isn't a rhino... I had some hilarious scenarios in my mind until I looked it up and saw it was a bat.

I thought I had a stroke reading it.

This is more data is ugly. Terrible and misleading conclusion.

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I mean I’m a mod. I just do it because I like the food network.

That being said, a lot of people in general are not all there. I don’t think it’s too out there or too cruel to guess that many people online also aren’t

Erm.

Societal well-being tends to be high in countries with with income.

High income strongly implies available spend for education and research.

Is this chart significantly different from just plotting wealth levels?

So many posts on here with absolutely non-sensical ways of displaying information

I mean... I think their are other significant contributors to this

While this is an interesting graph (minus this disastrous key), this title is definitely misleading. You're implying causation from this correlation, but I would argue it is not quite so simple. As is usually the case, it is much more expensive to be poor than rich. LATAM countries spend more on basic infrastructure than high HDI counterparts, and the efficiency of that spending is less because of graft and lower economies of scale. While the graph seems to be arguing that rich countries get rich by spending money on research, historically it would be more accurate to say rich countries remain rich because they have money to spend on tech development.

I've heard this but not entirely how it would work, care to elaborate? Is it because there may be another different variable which cancels out the causality effect leaving non observable correlation?

>Unfortanately your API probably can’t access data for threads and comments they suppressed.

You're correct, unfortunately.

How does violent intervention from the worlds most powerful militaries and harsh economic embargos factor into this chart? Wheres the dots for every coupd socialist leader, stolen precious resources eh?

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For a data analysis, compare the weeks before the moderator went to war on the users versus after. I suspect you’ll see a marked inflection point when they began suppressing comments and pushing away the users who had been driving engagement.

Unfortunately your API probably can’t access data for threads and comments they suppressed.

The chart leaves off the two countries with the highest rates of R&D, Korea (4.8%) and Israel (5.4%). Both would be off the right edge of the chart. The two have followed similar tracks: rapid economic expansion with a heavy emphasis on technology. Steadily improving human development.

Both realized that they are too small to compete on economies of scale with bigger countries, but they can compete in education and high tech. I think they are the economic model to emulate.

Chile has been (recently) more politically stable which attracts more investment into the local economy. They've also got an abundance of natural resources (#1 copper exporter) and invest heavily in education.

Nobody knows the true reason. Lots of clearly false ones were floated by the show operator.

The most plausible is that it’s a combination of misguided groupthink and a desire to create something catering to brand sponsors.

There’s a few important pieces of background. One is that there’s a very co-mutual element of social media promotion to Big Brother Canada production. One can’t exist without the other. Social media influence has saved and boosted the show on several key occasions.

Also, BB Canada relies heavily on corporate sponsors who fund the commercials and in return get heavy in-show product promotion and exposure. Really heavily.

In some ways, it’s inspired work to see brands being so heavily included. Every episode is jam packed with sponsor branding, including competitions and regular events. Players eat at a mini Wendy’s drivethrough. Regular meals come from a meal kit subscription business and the house refrigerator is a sponsored billboard. The rooms are sponsor themed and decorated.

So anyway, the likeliest scenario is production promised sponsors increased social media presence in the form of these so-called “digital dailies”. That much was obvious as many of them were just players doing practical informercials for products and services. Like meal kit subscriptions or home cleaning appliances.

But it appears that to hedge this bet on “digital daily” infomercial-laden content, they were scared to have that compete against the traditional video feeds, which couldn’t be curated and contrived for sponsors.

So, having decided to kill feeds, they need a cover story. They chose to first blame fan toxicity, and to try and fraudulently claim some kind of mental health high road.

That was debunked pretty quickly, so the next excuse was cost.

But people saw through that. The feeds are a free byproduct of the show’s production of filming everything. Video streaming is pervasive in 2023. All the same costs are already sunk, so feeds doesn’t add any cost, and that lie was kind of obvious.

The next was to claim feeds can’t be monetized. Yes, people actually tried claiming this. In a world where ad-based video streaming is incredibly pervasive and commoditized. Where there’s scores of platforms that could have been instant turnkey revenue.

So they switched to pretending the daily releases were going to be better, unfiltered but more distilled.

But once revealed, they were clearly not. They were late, limited, and infrequent. Excuses were floated about the semantics of what “dailies” are, or should be.

The subreddit moderator going to war on the fans who questioned this hasn’t helped.

And now, this week, production has suspended the “dailies” without explanation. And yes, of course, subreddit moderator is still telling people not to critique it. This is the mod’s current statement:

“Complaints about the lack of live feeds will be removed” along with this fake justification: “as to not clog up the thread.”

Or this gem: “frustrating as this news is, please don’t […] post to vent frustrations about the lack of live feeds.”

Interesting, I had some similar experiences during the first week of the season. And quite a few conversations with the mods.

Ultimately, I suspect there is an element of both things at play: (1) sedated viewership because of no feeds and (2) the subreddit self-sabotaging. A good handle on this might be just comparing the episode threads (gold bars) between BBCAN10 and BBCAN11. Posts in the episode threads shouldn't be getting censored to any significant degree. Yet the comments for BBCAN11 still lag BBCAN10 by a large amount.

Yeah, I don’t actually have experience with the Big Brother sub, but he mods another one and was just like… legitimately insane when confronted about basic issues. Wasn’t letting anyone post any content that wasn’t completely “family friendly” (think g rated - in a subreddit about a show that is fully uncensored and very much like… not g-rated. Just totally incoherent, removing posts and comments left and right. It was so bizarre.

I think he’s just some guy who got in early but isn’t all there mentally. So it’s kind of a shame that he alone is able to tank some pretty large subreddits

Yes the dither/crosshatch is quite hard to make out.

I would have suggested one season’s data elements all be shades of a colour, and the other season’s constituents be shades of a different colour. Like s10 all shades of rose, pink, red. And s11 be aquamarine, teal, blue, etc.

I see. Thanks