What Movie Won Instead?



Many of us have trouble remembering what movies won Academy Awards only a few days after they are bestowed. How can we be expected to remember those that didn't win? Or maybe you do! In today's Lunchtime Quiz at mental_floss, you'll be given films that were nominated for Best Picture. Can you match them to the film that actually won that year? I scored 55% (6 out of 11), and only because the year is included with each question. You will do better! Link

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Surprised she didn't use the CHINESE horoscope to personality stereotype. But over my life time I do the same when looking at dates. Short sweet personality testing and framing than to waste time.
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That really ticks me off. I won't waste my time applying to a backwards firm like this. To be honest, if I did get the job, I probably would have just been snarky at everyone and quit after a few months. :P
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Even stuff that does predict job performance like gender is not acceptable. One day we will come to find that the difference between stereotyping and thinking is actually nil.
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Okay well this is probably a hard thought. But just think about what I mean when I say "I bought a new chair today". You probably have a stereotyped notion of "chair" and this comes to mind when I speak of the chair I purchased. My mind conjures up the image of a typical straight-back wooden four-legged chair. Like a dining room chair. But the chair I bought could very easily be a bean-bag chair, a laz-y-boy or a lawn chair. There is such a variety of chairs out there, but our minds tend to think of something specific upon hearing the word "Chair".

So, one can see how "Chair" is a stereotype, but it is also the only means we have of communicating about chairs in general. Even my descriptions of the laz-y-boy would be a mishmash of stereotyped appearances. I could say that it reclines, and you would have some image of it reclining, but that image you have is probably not identical to the reclining motion of my chair.
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Also, Yale Pyschology Professor Paul Bloom describes this very fact in his videolecture "Lecture 16 - A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I"
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@ Ryan S

I think you mean Prototype, not Stereotype. One can have a prototype in mind of a chair, but a bean-bag chair, a laz-y-boy or a lawn chair are exemplars of the Chair prototype.

You can find similar discussions on prototype models as applied to birds.
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Absolutely true ....

All the scorpio colleagues i have are megalomaniac fighters....they will fight for anything and everything and turns the work place toxic !
I hate to work with them and skip their teams if possible.

not much experience with Virgos

I guess chinese are not stupid !
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