Interesting Links for 20-07-2016
Government lawyer tells court UK will not trigger Article 50 this year
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David Cameron built fewest houses of any Prime Minister since 1923 (Frankly, Labour's record not much better)
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People with low cognitive needs don't care about spoilers (and they don't bother people with low need for affect)
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I'm rather unimpressed, since I think that spoilers for classic literature are rather different than for genre fiction or (especially) genre TV & films. With authors I don't know I often flip to the end to see if the book that looks good so far has either an upsetting ending, or (more commonly) one that is impressively stupid, hackneyed, and devoid of interest.
I read spoilers for TV & movies even more commonly for exactly the same reason. I don't bother with authors worse work I'm familiar with and like and respect - seeing spoilers doesn't bother me, but I find no need for them because I have a basic level of trust and understanding of their work.
That's often not the case with TV and even less likely to be the case with movies, and so I regularly read spoilers because I don't trust most TV to avoid doing something impressively stupid at the end of an episode. The shows I don't bother reading spoilers for are the ones that I (mostly) trust to be competently done. I almost never trust movies to be competently done, and unless I'm simply going to something expecting a mindless spectacle, I read spoilers.
That said, I would likely have read the short stories w/o spoilers because my time investment in a short story is far smaller than for a novel and I value novelty sufficiently to be more interested in the ones I knew less about.
In short, I don't think this study discovered anything remotely useful wrt peoples' attitudes towards spoilers for TV and movies
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