A special page under this name has been opened at Cinemetrics. Here film scholars and professional statisticians discuss statistical methods applicable to films. The discussion will evolve in installments hinging […]
Month: July 2012
“How can cinema have so powerful a reality effect when it is so manifestly unreal?” Vittorio Gallese and I have started from this very simple assumption by Steven Shaviro to […]
Several cognitive psychologists cooked up a simple experiment to demonstrate the power of our preference for underdogs. Here are animations similar to those they used, so you can check out their results for yourself.