↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - > Eye-tracking study finds depression memes act like visual magnets for people > experiencing depressive symptoms > https://www.psypost.org/2020/12/eye-tracking-study-finds-depression-memes-act-like-visual-magnets-for-people-experiencing-depressive-symptoms-58939 > > "It also seems that this group are less interested in generally humorous > memes unrelated to the depression experience," Nice corrollary (ally?) to "doomscrolling" and "cassandrafreude"? I suspect most of my own doomscrolling is an attempt to higrade/mine for nuggets of cassandrafreude which triggers similar neurochemistry to that I described previously in response to your speculations about conspiracies, inner-truthiness, and hacktivism. > > That just *sounds* wrong to me. I would've written "this group is". But > according to this website: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/is-vs-are/ > > "But even in American English, a collective noun can take are when you need > to emphasize the individual members of the group." > > Perhaps the important thing, here, is that this "group" was classed together > from the outside. The grouping of "depressed people" is very susceptible to > criticism and, I'd bet money, derived from external self-reported > expressions. So by saying "this group are", the authors might be expressing > that, even though we've grouped them thusly, that grouping is > extensional/phenomenal, not intensional/generative. So they really should > retain their plural status and not be singularized into the group.
Interesting analysis. I concur but tentatively until I can find some more examples. This distinction/tension of collectivizing/conflating the singular and vice-versa might be a central theme to many of our current social maladies. - Steve - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
