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05 Dec 2024
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They were literally finding that as you progress through and get a little cranky or maybe get a little bit more, uh, mean in your grading, you actually do give worse grades and also worse feedback. Now I'm just reflecting.
I'm an F. Like, am I just a total fraud? Have I just been getting grade inflation for years? But this study actually did spur change at one of the companies that is this one of these learning management systems. They now offer a randomized version citing this particular study, because if you keep alphabetizing, then the names at the end of the alphabet are going to continuously get penalized.
So actually a remarkable finding. My second number is about the rise of the long movie title and the emergence of the colon in a title along with it. You know what I'm talking about. Furiosa colon, a Mad Max saga. The Chronicles of Narnia colon, the Voyage of the Dawn Treader. Percy Jackson and the Olympics colon, Olympians colon, the lightning thief.
This colonization of movie titles is a distinct measurable pattern, according to Daniel Paris at Stat Significant. He found that the average length of movie titles increased by nearly two whole alphanumeric characters from the 1970s until now. Meanwhile, 16% of movies in the 2020s had a colon in the title, compared to 5% as recently as the 1990s.
Paris argues that the surge of colon use in movie titles is a regrettable reflection of the rinse and repeat movies Hollywood puts out right now. He writes, these protracted monikers present stories known to audiences on intellectual property while also offering a small degree of novelty.
Hence, instead of Spider-Man 2 and Spider-Man 3, you got Superman colon Man of Steel and Spider-Man colon No Way Home. Here's parents once again, every film is an event, a fleeting once-in-a-lifetime experience that serves as a single chapter in a long-running and perhaps never-ending story.
So this is a modern phenomenon that a lot, as you said, the inventification of movies has led to a rise in colons. But you also quizzed the group yesterday and said, do you guys know what the longest movie title is that has a budget of $20 million or more? And it's actually 2006's Borat, which goes Borat, colon, cultural learnings of America for make benefit glorious nation of Kazakhstan.
So that was funny because that was an ironic use of the colon in 2006. But as you go through and you see the sequels, you see the rise of these events, you do see a less ironic use of colon. So it was funny to trace the lineage of Borat making a joke out of it to it becoming a real phenomenon in the entertainment industry.
My final number inspired by the 52 things I learned this year, well, it's more of a fun fact, is something unique about Milwaukee's Mitchell International Airport. It has multiple recombobulation areas where you can recombobulate after the hassle of going through a TSA security checkpoint. Is recombobulate even a word? They replied, you know that's not a word, right? But,
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