5. People are very good at grouping random things together, so lists can be about anything
五、人们非常擅长把随机事物组合在一起,所以任何东西都可以登上清单
Probability theories of category formation demonstrate that we tend to lump very different things together in the same category, (e.g. Football and Chess have very few features in common, but both would be considered a type of game). This tendency to group things together despite their differences mean lists with a nominal subject matter can include things that wander off topic quite bizarrely, like a list of scientific facts about the human body including a discussion of atomic structure.
类别形成的概率理论表明,我们倾向于把不同的东西堆在同一个类别之下(例如足球和国际象棋鲜有相同特征,但是两者都可以看成是游戏类型)。无视不同而将东西组合在一起的倾向意味着,有着一个名义上主题的清单可能包括一些风马牛不相及的东西,比如关于人类身体的科学事实的清单里却包括了关于原子结构的讨论。
6. Popular things can be listed
六、流行事物可以被列入清单
Lists are very popular, so logically lists about popular things would be more popular again. Bacon, sexy ladies, funny cats and tweets, all of these regularly end up on lists. You may say this point isn't scientific in any way, but I include it as evidence for the above point. Which means it is scientific in a very tenuous way.
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