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this is fascinating, i feel like batman : gundam :: superman : goku is the obvious pairing here and yet the results of the two polls are opposite what this would predict

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

· Jan 6

poll: when you were a kid would you rather have been batman or superman

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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)

@QiaochuYuan

Jan 6

i also would have guessed that and i'm surprised by it too!

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one thought: goku / gundam is pretty much exclusively catching people in a specific age range who watched toonami growing up whereas batman / superman draws in a potentially much wider age range, gen Xers and so forth

8:12 PM · Jan 6, 2022Twitter Web App

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yeah that's a good point, selection effects could be huge