When are scums scummiest?

Psyche · Post Post #2 (isolation #0) » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:28 pm

That's a very good question. I wonder how I could design a study to investigate that. Find periods of the game when accusations are most likely to be against scum? That'd work if you define scummy as "attracting votes from town", but that's not really the definition.

I read that people are most readable when there are transitions in the discourse — a change or subject. These are called 'breaks'. But I couldn't find the literature to explain why or how.

Psyche · Post Post #7 (isolation #1) » Mon Jun 11, 2012 2:50 pm

TELL ME HOW.

Psyche · Post Post #12 (isolation #2) » Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:12 pm

I'm definitely more transparent near the end of the game as scum. No one ever seems to care once I've gotten that far and I know it.

Psyche · Post Post #50 (isolation #3) » Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:06 am

So far my studies suggest that scum are scummiest (i.e., found to be scummy and thereafter lynched) after a scumbud has died.

But that just means that people are able to go back and successfully draw connections...