Missing graph title: The Importance of Being Earnest
The idea of earnestness took off with the Industrial Revolution, but started to become unfashionable in the late 19th century and declined through the entire 20th:pic.twitter.com/05eDuny6Eo
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The importance of earnestness today is as high as ever, yet it’s vanishingly rare
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When earnings decreased after the dot com bubble, it stopped being accurate to talk about earn-estness. So people switched to honesty.
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why do you think that is?
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We’re not earnest anymore.
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What does the y axis measure?
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@paulg - do you mean the importance of being ernest?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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What this shows is that the word "earnestness" took off and become unfashionable, not the idea of earnestness.
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are people using new words to describe the idea?
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