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TeMPOraL 3 days ago

I keep up with the Cardassians, so I guess I'd flunk this test quite spectacularly.

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gilleain 3 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, I wonder how the responses would be to "Describe Gul Dukat to someone who doesn't know him"

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em-bee 3 days ago | parent [-]

but see, we got our own celebrities and a way to talk about them. doesn't that kind of confirm the idea? the problem is just that the content of the test is to limited.

every group has their own language and people not in that group have a different one.

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shiroiushi 3 days ago | parent [-]

>we got our own celebrities and a way to talk about them

Maybe, but Gul Dukat isn't a celebrity, he's a character. The study isn't asking people about <character from currently popular movie or TV show>, but about real, living celebrities. If they asked about the #1 character in Bridgerton, whoever that is, that I think would be comparable.

It also doesn't help that they're mainly asking about current celebrities. A 60-year-old doesn't give a shit about the Kardashians or Justin Bieber. Obama probably. But some celebrity who was big 30-40 years ago would be of much more interest to them.

	▲	TeMPOraL 3 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Unless you know them personally, there's almost no difference between a celebrity and a well-known fictional character. Either way, you're learning a crafted story about a person that doesn't really exist. Kim Kardashian the person is a real human, but Kim Kardashian the celebrity is just as real a person as Dukat, a Gul in Cardassian Union.
	▲	bitwize 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Maybe, but Gul Dukat isn't a celebrity, he's a character. That line can get blurry; see for instance Hatsune Miku.