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| I assumed this comic was saying that political scientists ''like'' looking at the data from "surveys". And "it's complicated" reminds me of a survey option. The title text seems to be about survey ratings, which are from a 1-5 or 1-10 scale. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.35.244|172.69.35.244]] 17:57, 13 December 2021 (UTC) | | I assumed this comic was saying that political scientists ''like'' looking at the data from "surveys". And "it's complicated" reminds me of a survey option. The title text seems to be about survey ratings, which are from a 1-5 or 1-10 scale. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.35.244|172.69.35.244]] 17:57, 13 December 2021 (UTC) |
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− | Shouldn't someone mention that this comic came out a few weeks before Christmas, when it is customary for people in certain Christian countries to give gifts to each other (citation needed)?
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− | I thought that the point was that Ponytail was being given the present of having to organise the fair gift exchange, not that she was giving her family a gift of it.
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− | *Ponytail says "Ugh" at the start, implying that ''she'' doesn't want to organize the exchange, but since Cueball in this strip is a political scientist, she's offering him the gift of getting to organize it. --[[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.39|162.158.75.39]] 04:42, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | ''white elephant gift exchange''? We call it ''Evil Santa'' a play on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Santa Secret Santa]'' [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.15|108.162.249.15]] 09:00, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | *Oh, I now see that there are a number of listed variants on the Secret Santa page [[Special:Contributions/108.162.249.107|108.162.249.107]] 09:05, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | Might the title also be a reference to Matcel Mauss' classical text "The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Societies" ? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.238.9|162.158.238.9]] 09:43, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | Is the mention of "white elephant" appropriate here? The comic itself doesn't seem to imply that this is about "white elephant" gifts, but rather the opposite (desired, or fair, gifts) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.134.89|172.70.134.89]] 18:54, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
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− | It might be worth pointing out in this article that this particular problem was solved ([https://github.com/chrisokasaki/TradeMaximizer]) over 14 years ago by a mathematician (a useful branch of knowledge), Dr. Chris Okasaki, not by a political ‘scientist’ (har har). The persons involved in the gift exchange create want lists, a tool takes the want lists and creates a bipartite graph with certain properties then finds a perfect matching representing the optimal trades, ensuring that everyone who trades something they brought for something else gets something they like better than what they started with.
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− | The comics also reminds of a scene in Neal Stephenson's '''Cryptonomicon''' - one of the heroes, mathematician, solved the problem of dividing an inheritance among relatives by letting them place items on a 2D coordinate plot drawn on a parking lot (and spending a week on supercomputer to calculate the final results). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.90.173|172.70.90.173]] 00:01, 14 January 2022 (UTC) Edheldil
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