I love this "if". If you really wanna test it, strip the names and run it on MTurk. 
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Replying to @o_guest @Erysiphales and
I'm being extremely facetious of course because if you did that the context collapse would be big/hard to avoid. Instead you can just listen to the people in this thead.
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Replying to @o_guest @Psycholosopher and
The way I see it Pros: It's interesting to me A poll of unbiased outsiders is "proof" Cons: Responses are majority of one opinion, so why bother I won't spend more than I would on takeout so how valid could it be I'm legit unfamiliar with context collapse, could you explain it?
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Replying to @Erysiphales @Psycholosopher and
To be clear, I was replying to
@Psycholosopher as I assume you already understood the sexist undertones here. Context collapse: http://mediatedcultures.net/youtube/context-collapse/ …1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @o_guest
Ah sure, I misread you and thought this was the other fork of the thread for some reason. And yeah the implicit "men are assertive, women are angry" was what turned me on to the "ask some randoms what they think with the names blacked out" angle Thanks for the link -
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Replying to @Erysiphales @o_guest
- assuming you have the time to keep indulging me: from my reading of the link context collapse refers to there being no specific social environment to an interaction on the internet, and so a viewer might interpret this exchange completely differently depending on how it is -
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Replying to @Erysiphales @o_guest
- presented to them, eg the question "who here is the angriest" has a hypothetical reader searching for traces of anger where they might never have seen any before. And someone ribbing a friend might come across as highly insulting, stripped of the context that -
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Replying to @Erysiphales @o_guest
- the two parties know each other well. Am I on the right track? "who is the angriest" was along the lines of what I would ask in a strawpoll, but I hadn't considered that just by asking the question I prejudice people towards a certain reading of the situation.
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Replying to @o_guest
Ugh, well that's no fun at all then. Guess I'll go back to asking fungi why they won't infect my plants. At least they always give you a straight answer
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Yeah — we get degrees in different fields for real reasons. 
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Replying to @o_guest
haha, yeah and in fairness I normally laugh at people who dismiss fields they've never worked in as "easy" or similar, so it's always good to be walked back a few steps and think "but aren't I the one being silly right now?"
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