China is a basket case....

HK_Katherine · 22-02-2018, 06:20 PM

Actors are paid to be someone they are not. I have no problem with anyone playing anyone if they do it well. Shakespeare plays had men playing women in his day.

civil_servant · 22-02-2018, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by TheBrit:

For someone who claims to have a scientific mind and be highly numerate, I'd love to see you estimate the statistical likelihood of distribution of comments on the SCMP being unconnected discrete commentators

Research on wumaos indicates that they rarely engage in argument, but flood message boards with distractionary messages. It's not something to be observed on the SCMP article. If you read more deeply, there's an actual discussion going on with multiple post by the same people.

https://gking.harvard.edu/50c

Golem · 22-02-2018, 06:21 PM

I recall a big problem when a Swede played football national coach in the UK

HowardCoombs · 01-03-2018, 06:34 PM

Some interesting commentary on the basket case...

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comment...59&sh=cf6e9ae1

civil_servant · 01-03-2018, 08:01 PM

Originally Posted by HowardCoombs:

Some interesting commentary on the basket case...

https://np.reddit.com/r/news/comment...59&sh=cf6e9ae1

This is interesting.

And then you have the effect on the Chinese Banking system. Imagine what happened in the US happening in China...but where their are way way more empty properties that won't go from 500K to 300K but from 500K to 10K or less. After all they are not well made concrete boxes in the sky. They don't really have a high intrinsic value, especially when 100-500 million properties suddenly become open for sale.

Lol.

I wonder why it got such high ratings?

East_coast · 01-03-2018, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by civil_servant:

Research on wumaos indicates that they rarely engage in argument, but flood message boards with distractionary messages. It's not something to be observed on the SCMP article. If you read more deeply, there's an actual discussion going on with multiple post by the same people.

https://gking.harvard.edu/50c

It suggest Wumoas try to stifle discussion by posting about trivial points and using whataboutism.

It does sound familiar

civil_servant · 01-03-2018, 09:19 PM

Originally Posted by East_coast:

posting about trivial points and using whataboutism.

Interesting, as it claims the total opposite.

In this randomly selected training set, like the last, we find no evidence of taunting of foreign countries, although we
did find a handful of posts in the category of argumentative praise or criticism, constituting only 3% of the posts.

Originally Posted by East_coast:

stifle discussion

Since you got it wrong, who's in actual fact stifling discussion by referring to opposing viewpoints as wumaos?