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bsnimunf t1_j0q958h wrote

England never go into a world cup thinking they are the best. That is the most ridiculous shit I have ever heard. They are world class professional players who play in the premier League and champions league against the best players in the world they know exactly the quality of player and teams they are facing and know that even if you are the best your going to have to fight tooth and nail to even get to the semis.

If anything the fans have a generally pessimistic attitude.

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mfb- t1_j0q2yr3 wrote

Brazil won and was known as next opponent. Sure, they were strong favorites against South Korea anyway, but Croatia's chance to win overall would have relied on pretty unlikely outcomes anyway and an upset victory of South Korea would have helped a lot (Croatia beating Brazil was the other unlikely option, of course). Argentina and the Netherlands won their games, too, so the semifinal was guaranteed to have a strong opponent as well. Add a weak performance against Japan to the mix.

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Not_that_wire OP t1_j0prz9p wrote

Thanks, I'm still working on the data engineering so it can be accessible to open data/science. I've got another few months to contribute.

Raw counts and geolocations are helpful for law enforcement and "critical time-sensitive social program interventions" ie: tactical short-term program funding.

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ClarenceTheClam t1_j0prx3w wrote

In no way is this actually true though. You're getting confused by a comedy football song ("It's coming home"), and the general jokey positive atmosphere around English football at the moment now that we're no longer absolutely dreadful every tournament. The idea of England being any more arrogant about their chances than any other nation is just a meme (for us and other nations).

The players are a young and down to earth group, the manager is the furthest from arrogant you can get, and no pundits back here were seriously predicting England to win the world cup. On the BBC the predictions were 7x Brazil, 3 x Argentina, 2 x France and 1 x England (which she admitted was just a heart decision and her head said Brazil).

As for guaranteeing we'll never win anything, I can't really disagree considering we've never won a thing in my lifetime, but we were only a penalty shootout away from winning the Euros!

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Flobarooner t1_j0prh77 wrote

God fuck off it gets so tiring reading salty anglophobes constantly chat this utter nonsense about us having "inflated egos", probably the least egotistical big team in the entire tournament. Who on the England team has an ego? Literally none of them, a group of players renowned for being humble. And then we lose to France, a team full of massive fucking egos, mostly because of the ref. So I don't see how you can "guarantee" we wouldn't win

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Not_that_wire OP t1_j0prbku wrote

Totally agree. I really try to honour the individuals I know it looks like rows from data table. I'm always aware that each row is a child who is afraid, hurt and in need of TLC.

It's hard work form me. I cry often. But after 30 yrs of making people rich from data, this feels better for me.

I work with quantitative data only. I don't do lit reviews and book report type research. Much of it is rehashed and derivatives if not just conforming (easier to get funding).

I felt my son's insight, while admittedly a generalization, helped me open up my perspective which helps me ask more meaningful questions.

There's no precise approach to understand individual outcomes but, in aggregate, looking at abuse through a public health/public safety perspective, the more likely we are to identify and support victims while securing better evidence against perpetrators.

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goldfishpaws t1_j0pify0 wrote

Zero snow is white and lots is purple! Infographics generally benefit from being instinctive, so for instance rainfall shown in blues, sun as yellows, so it might be worth stepping back to the project thinking about colouring and what it conveys in itself, to make it feel more instinctual :)

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