What Were You Thinking XIV! (Game over)

[AniX]

Question: Was forms of math folded into the overall math category (ie if someone put calculus, did they get credit for math?). I feel some type of way about Social Studies having no points but History being in the top.

[StrangerCoug]

Question: Was forms of math folded into the overall math category (ie if someone put calculus, did they get credit for math?). I feel some type of way about Social Studies having no points but History being in the top.

No. Nobody gave a specific form of math; the only grouping was to account for dialectal differences (math vs. maths).

If there are no objections by the deadline for question 12, question 11 will be rescored with English/language arts and literature grouped together. Save The Dragons would still drop either way, this would only affect the unofficial "running tally" of the people who answered with one of those things.

[DragonEater70]

I support this.

Question: Was forms of math folded into the overall math category (ie if someone put calculus, did they get credit for math?). I feel some type of way about Social Studies having no points but History being in the top.

btw, I believe that normally when SC folds multiple subjects into one, he uses parentheses and slashes to indicate that. So it would have looked like:
Math/Calculus/(Linear) Algebra (13): names

[Ircher]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/diction ... age%20arts

i figured. i mostly asked since our literature and language class was all in one single class, and i was wondering if that's the same for the rest of y'all

I feel keeping them separate makes sense here. Literature and English language arts were definitely separate classes for me back in middle and elementary school. Literature focused on developing reading skills while language arts focused on developing writing skills.

[AniX]

Yeah, if Lit and Language are put together, History and Social Studies should be too.

[racefan12]

For me, Literature (which we just called "Reading") and Language/English were separate subjects in middle school, but combined in high school.

Same with History and Social Studies.

[DragonEater70]

Yeah, if Lit and Language are put together, History and Social Studies should be too.

I disagree, these are pretty different subjects (if I understand what is meant by "social studies")

[Haschel Cedricson]

History and Geography are both branches of Social Studies.

[AniX]

Right, which is why I was asking about how branches of Math were treated. At least at my school, Social Studies was the department (Like English, Match, and Science were the department) and then the individual flavors were under that department. History is to Social Studies as, like, Calculus is to Math.

I have to say, I'm a huge fan of the questions that don't put all players on the same level (this and the celebrity question come to mind) because they require knowledge the player is unlikely to have in order to succeed, as opposed to questions where all players start with roughly the same foundation and just need to try to figure out what everyone else will do with that knowledge. (nearly every item one might find in a grocery store has the same name wherever you are, it is just a matter of figuring out what everyone else views as the quintessential items. Whereas what classes you took in school that dealt with reading books clearly does not have a standardized name)

[StrangerCoug]

Out of V/LA.

[StrangerCoug]

Everyone is in; results in the morning.

[StrangerCoug]

Q12: Which do you think is a bigger problem on TV shows: the amount of sex or the amount of violence?

Violence (18):

AniX, biancospino, Cephrir, Cheery Dog, DeasVail, Farren, Haschel Cedricson, Iprobablysuck, JerryArr, mallowgeno, Merlyn, N, pablito, racefan12, Silverclaw, Skygazer, SleepyKrew, VashtaNeurotic

Sex (5):

Ariel, Aureal, Datisi, DragonEater70, Save The Dragons

Irrelevant players

StrangerCoug (18): Violence

And now I can't get that damn Family Guy theme out of my head.

In any event, our unscientific little survey says that people are more sick of bloodshed than lovemaking. We know the rules and we know who said what, so let's cut to the chase:
Aureal drops to level 4.
Ariel and Datisi drop to level 5.
DragonEater70 and Save The Dragons drop to level 6.

[StrangerCoug]

Q13: Name five popular dog breeds.

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Submission due in: (expired on 2023-10-11 17:57:24)

Allowing you an extra eight hours so deadline isn't in the middle of my work shift.

[Datisi]

once again my read on The Mafiascum Collective is very wrong. interesting.

[DragonEater70]

I picked Sex even though I knew the collective would pick Violence.

That's what you get for being honest.

[Skygazer]

I'd be curious to see the demographics behind the votes if this were a bigger poll and people were answering honestly. I feel like American shows are more violent and a lot of Non-American English speaking shows I've seen are more sexual? And older Americans are much more likely to get offended by sex than violence imo whereas a lot of people my age would rather see some smut instead

[DragonEater70]

Skygazer I think you are behind on updating your sig.
Just a random thought.

[Merlyn]

this was a hard one bc I don't think either are a problem really

[StrangerCoug]

Also, a friendly reminder not to look answers for the current question up on Google. I was strict about this last time I ran this game. I'll elaborate more on this after I reveal the answers to this question.

[Iprobablysuck]

i just picked violence because i was pretty sure mafiascum as a low prude population

[Haschel Cedricson]

Violence is more of a problem because there is more of it already there.

[Cheery Dog]

I don't want to be watching either, but when news reports one they tend to show it, so violence is therefore too commonplace.

[biancospino]

Tbh the problem I have with violence is that it's mostly used in a middle-of-the-way non-committal way which feels gross. Like if it just serves to add some edge or to make the work more "mature", which not only is silly but also trivializes the matter. Hyperviolent shows can obviously be worked out, but I believe that there need be, even if not going to the extremes of outright gorn, at least some degree of commitment to it or it's borderline a mockery of the audience's maturity, and even then I'd imagine it would, or should, likely alienate the most generalist public. Sex is also at times used gratuitously in much the same way but at least I think it's significantly less problematic

[AniX]

It's interesting because I agree with your calculus but think it ultimately goes in the opposite direction. Violence is rarely present in shows that don't revolve around violence so it is never gratuitous or serving only to add edge because usually the show would not exist but for the violence. It is an inherent part of the program. Like you never see a random show decide "Ok, now we are going to have the main character witness a murder" or "The goofy side character is going to get stabbed randomly". In this way, you can usually identify which shows will be violent and avoid them.

The same isn't particularly true with sex, which in my experience will pop up on the most random shows and you'll be like "I was just watching something else entirely! What is going on here?"

Violence on shows is way more predictable and thus way more avoidable than sex is.

[N]

I just hate slapstick