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- | ====== An Empty Table ====== | ||
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- | [{{ :wiki:empty_table.png?nolink&200|List of good reasons to believe that the Earth is flat}}] | ||
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- | **An Empty Table** is a table that was drawn, but not filled in. | ||
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- | The properties of an empty table include height, width, number of rows, columns and styling. However, empty tables generally have no titles, since a title would depend on the content. | ||
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- | Empty tables are extremely popular among people who need to make a table on a subject that they are ignorant about. An empty table is also great as a listing of ideas that you still did not think of. | ||
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- | ===== Empty Table Perception Asymmetry ===== | ||
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- | It can be argued that empty tables can say more than intended. A person who has not yet filled out a table may seem smarter than she really is. Once the table is filled out, it would be clear she is a psychopath, or just a very bored diesel mechanic. | ||
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- | This perception asymmetry of a person before and after they fill out a table is called an //empty table perception asymmetry//. It is a strictly professional term, although the professions that use this term are very specialized, and the terms they use are so narrow, that their width hardly exceeds that of a hair. As a result, nobody really ever refers to the //empty table perception asymmetry//, and laymen are advised against showing off their knowledge of the concept. | ||
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- | Among intellectuals using the term even as an inside joke is considered extremely offensive, to the point of considering it an obstruction of justice. | ||
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- | ===== Necessarily Empty Tables ===== | ||
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- | A whole class of empty tables must logically stay empty. For example, a table of ideas you still haven't come up with is always necessarily empty. As soon as you put something in it - it then becomes an idea that //you have thought of//, therefore it has to be immediately removed from the table. | ||
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- | ===== Criticism of empty tables ===== | ||
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- | [[J. N. Spoilsport]] argues that empty tables may be breeding grounds for offensive content, since theoretically anyone can write anything in them. [[Mr. Porridge]] counters that any given table has limited dimensions, which in turn limit the amount of content it can hold. Therefore, you cannot write **anything** in an empty table. | ||
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- | "It is clear that if you have a small empty table, you cannot write a novel in it. This is fairly obvious. I have no idea how someone can think otherwise," - Mr. Porridge says. | ||
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- | [[The Cave]] forum post in 2016 has commented on this by launching a project that would allow an Excel table to hold compressed text. That way, Mr. Porridge would be proven false. | ||
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- | [[Dan Dindridge]] has summed up the whole exchange by pointing out that empty tables is something that "the public doesn't give a shit about". | ||
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- | ===== An Empty Table Example ===== | ||
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- | {{:wiki:empty_table.png?nolink|}} |