• PoCS, Vols. 1 and 2: Peter Sheridan Dodds's Principles of Complex Systems

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Slide Set 045: Linguistic Pollyanna Principle: The positivity bias of language

Slide Set 044: Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations
 
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Slide Set 046: The Lexicocalorimeter

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Covered in these episode(s) and clip(s):


Clip 1: Pollyanna Principle for English (14:27)

Clip 2: Jellyfish plots! (8:27)

Clip 3: Pollyanna Principle for 10 languages (9:23)

Clip 4: More jellyfish, comments on Google books, translations (5:13)

Clip 5: Translation stable words (8:02)

Clip 6: Bad mistakes commonly made in word analysis (5:38)



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