Just watched a horror film, The Belko Experiment, worth a mention for #BadSciFilm. International office workers, mostly Americans, are locked in their building & instructed to kill some of their colleagues or they'll all die. Ending is the silliest: it's all about #SocialSciencepic.twitter.com/42o3QsZ0cY
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"And believe me, we've learned an incredible amount about the human mind and behaviour since we started these experiments..."
#SOCIALSCIENCE HAS BEEN AROUND FOR CENTURIES BUT PLEASE GO ON... "Science is method.
We're simply gathering data.

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Then the Bad White Man working for International Organisation of The Greatest Minds Working for the Advacement of
#SocialScience Through Hyper Violent and Expensive Shell Corporation Set Up in Panana begins to gather "data" with the worst quantitative survey ever...#BadSciFilmpic.twitter.com/8zf5hz6mSfShow this thread -
"Which emotion most accurately describes how you feel in this moment? A: sad. B: relieved. [Note everyone he knows is dead.] C: confused. D..." We'll never know what "D" was because terrible survey was interrupted. Was it "D: bewildered by your definition of data?"
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At the end of the film we see that - gasp! - there are Belko experiments being run all over the world simultaneously. Billions of dollars being spend on salaries to hire workers to be later killed in high security buildings... all for... social science. For "data."
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I will dutifully suspend my disbelief for many silly horror movies - but when this involves accepting that there is a multinational corporation sponsoring billions of dollars on "social science," and a crap experiment at that, I must draw the line. Datafully yours,
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