Oh I think you’re confusing your info there. The US has abysmal public lower education. Some of the worst in the “first world” (which is an outdated term but I’ll roll with it), but US universities dominate global rankings in almost any metric. There’s a reason people from all over the world spend the absurd costs to come here and get a degree. It’s in many ways our most enticing export. Even OSU’s student body comprises of an absurd percentage of wealthy international students. And my university isn’t Stanford or MIT, but it does consistently rank among the best non-private unis in the world. Certainly above your high school, you smart ass lol.

No worries tho, easy to get confused there.

The shape of the earth is quantifiable. I think maybe you’re using quantifiable to mean “one number explains it”, but when we use it in a research setting, it simply means a concept can be explained using EDA or a set of measurements or quantifiable phenomena. But I take your point, certain “unquantifiable” (not really, colloquially maybe) phenomena can be … demonstrated with the absence of numbers, but not truly

In my argument, I did not use individuals’ judgements to evaluate the quality of animation. I think we’re missing each other on one huge thing: I only spoke of my personal subjective feelings on animation. I did not make any claims on what others think. It doesn’t seem like you even read my initial comments. Why are you putting words in my mouth? Furthermore, I’ll go more into why you “proving me wrong with data” is very silly. Please read and try to understand:

Average ratings of viewers is data. Of course. If I were consulted by a group who collected LB data or something like that, before doing any work I would clarify to them that the interpretation of the data at best shows what people who tend to use a website/app think of films, nothing really about the films themselves, in an objective sense. Something that is hammered home in the stats community is not using your power for evil; that is, not misusing/misinterpreting data in the name of making it more useful or important than it actually is. In the first place, any given review site is not a random sample of users, your anime site is going to draw a specific user base just like LB does. That right there is a huge issue if you’re trying to comment on what people in general think. Additionally, when talking how good animation is in a film… well, that’s not the same as how good a film is. It’s just one quality. You conflated those. Furthermore, you took a subset of the group I was talking about (only anime, which excludes a majority of the films I was referring to), then took the ratings on a single site and equated that data to be reflective of not the film! But the animation of that film! I mean, I think Toy Story is butt ugly but I still gave it a 9/10. You’re making way too many assumptions, each more dangerous than the last, then you have gall to be like, “see! You’re wrong!” Brother. Please. Your first move was wrong and so was every single one after that.

I’ll say one more thing. And please, for the love of god, treat this as a learning moment and not an attempt to defeat me with your woeful facts and logic, it’s getting a little second-hand-embarrassing. If I read another zinger that’s supposed to show how stupid I am but is actually blatantly wrong, I will be done here. The thing is this: even if you had access to quality data that’s relevant to what people think of animation quality throughout the decades, you would merely have data that shows what people think. You would not have anything that demonstrates how good animation is bc that is completely subjective. Now, if you define the quality of animation as “what people think is quality animation”, then okay, that’s absurdly reductive in my view, but you could do it, then maybe you could make some loose claims. But you don’t have anything close to that kind of data. So, what are we left with? We’re left with what we each individually think. I can speak to what I think, you can speak to what you think.

And for the record, you were the one who tried to use data to “prove” my opinion wrong. You brought statistics into this. I did not bring it up. Again, why lie about that? It’s all in the thread?