How would you measure ritual:function ratio of beverage traditions (tea, coffee, wine, scotch, bourbon, beer, soda, water)
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Post proposal: invent and publish a "Ritualization Index" of beverage traditions.
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agree there's something here but I'd have to define and quantify like 87,000 different things
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that's why you brutally use principal component analysis. I bet cost explains 70% of variation in utility/aesthetic val
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two causal directions - costly stuff with aesthetic value is maintained, & costly stuff with no value a good signal
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