Submitted by Sisiwakanamaru t3_10oxrvx in movies
TheWaterBound t1_j6jklig wrote
Reply to comment by Mirororim in Australia to Impose Local Content Quotas on Streaming Platforms by Sisiwakanamaru
Because huge numbers with tiny percentage differences are massively different.
Suppose the content library was 10,000 properties. You reduce that number by 2.66% and you're removing 266 properties. If you supposed the difference was 20% films, 40% short series and 40% traditional US style series, that would be, say, .226690+.4266360+.4266946 = just under 2,400 content hours.
What determines significant in this context is how much less stuff you've got to watch. I think having 200 fewer shows and movies is a significant difference.
>It sounds more like cope than anything honestly. "Oh the content library is so large that you should ignore the percentage because then it doesn't make the point I might want it to."
Search: construct validity.
Percentages are not a good way of measuring a lot of things. This is one of them.
Mirororim t1_j6oaab9 wrote
> Percentages are not a good way of measuring a lot of things.
True.
>This is one of them.
Not true, and you've failed to show that.
You could've made this argument on a quality front, like maybe the 2.66% that's missing on Netflix Canada but is available on Netflix US is the content that everyone watches, but you failed to do so (likely because I suspect that you'd be wrong to make this argument).
Just going "Total too big so no percentage please" means nothing.
>What determines significant in this context is how much less stuff you've got to watch. I think having 200 fewer shows and movies is a significant difference.
Why 200? Why not 250? Why not 5000? Why not 10? I want my 10 movies. If I don't have those 10 movies Americans have I'll scream. Give them to me.
TheWaterBound t1_j6oaohn wrote
>Why 200? Why not 250? Why not 5000? Why not 10? I want my 10 movies. If I don't have those 10 movies Americans have I'll scream. Give them to me.
Congratulations, you have made the argument for me.
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