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Does factoid mean a (short) message?

 
 
Reply Wed 18 Dec, 2013 12:46 pm

Context;

There is a little-known factoid about the Milgram Experiment, reported by Philip Zimbardo: none of the participants who refused to administer the final shocks insisted that the experiment itself be terminated, nor left the room to check the health of the victim without requesting permission to leave, as per Milgram's notes and recollections, when Zimbardo asked him about that point.[11]

Milgram created a documentary film titled Obedience showing the experiment and its results. He also produced a series of five social psychology films, some of which dealt with his experiments.[12]

MOre:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
 
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dalehileman
 
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Reply Wed 18 Dec, 2013 02:04 pm
@oristarA,
Ori the report is a bit involved, while the def of "factoid"

http://onelook.com/?w=factoid&ls=a

reveals that the term is a bit cloudy. But it's evidently the notes and recollections that constitute the factoid. Evidently Milgram wants to gloss over accusations that his experiment might have been overly cruel
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Jack of Hearts
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Reply Wed 18 Dec, 2013 02:25 pm
@oristarA,
A factoid is an aside, a truth not contained within the context - but is related to the subject; small bit of information;
a note that is not noteworthy; a fact as worthless as a turd, hence "factoid".
oristarA
 
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Reply Wed 18 Dec, 2013 11:02 pm
Thank you both
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McTag
 
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2013 02:15 am
@Jack of Hearts,

Quote:
a fact as worthless as a turd, hence "factoid".


Disagree with that.

Quote:
a small bit of information;


Agree with that.

It's just a little fact. A "snippet of information".
oristarA
 
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2013 02:24 am
@McTag,
McTag wrote:



Quote:
a small bit of information;


Agree with that.

It's just a little fact. A "snippet of information".


So it goes with what I said in the title of the thread?
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2013 03:27 am
@oristarA,

Yes, except a "message" is not the same as a "fact".
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Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2013 04:34 am
'A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth'

That is a factoid.

Here is another one :

'Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks, otherwise it would digest itself.'
McTag
 
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2013 04:49 am
@Lordyaswas,

Quote:
'A crocodile's tongue is attached to the roof of it's mouth'

That is a factoid.


but with an error in punctuation. (sorry Embarrassed )
Lordyaswas
 
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Reply Thu 19 Dec, 2013 04:51 am
@McTag,
Oops.......copy and paste laziness.

Honest.

<get's era'ser to re-move apostrophe>
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