documentary · HACKER NEWS RECOMMENDATION
Derren Brown - The System (Full)
ScepticaTV · 3 HN recommenders · 3 recommendation months
Recommended by 3 Hacker News commenters across 3 months (2013–2017).
SignalTube analysis
Among 9 other documentary videos tagged Psychology & human behavior, the mean is 5.0 distinct HN recommenders. This video has 3 distinct HN recommenders, below that mean. Recommendations span 3 distinct months; the peer average is 5.4 months. This is a data-derived comparison, not a human review or quality rating.
50% of its 6 labeled comments are marked as recommendations or strong recommendations. HN mention years are 2013–2017; those years describe discussion history, not upload date. A verified runtime is not present in the current metadata snapshot. A verified YouTube publication date is not present in the current metadata snapshot.
- Channel / speaker
- ScepticaTV
- Verified runtime
- Not verified in the current YouTube metadata
- YouTube upload date
- Not verified
- Hacker News mention years
- 2013–2017
SAME TOPIC AND FORMAT
Compare with related videos
The comparison cohort uses other documentary videos in Psychology & human behavior. “Shared recommenders” counts HN users who recommended both videos in the source graph.
| Video | HN recommenders | Recommendation months | Positive label share | Shared recommenders | Runtime | Upload date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derren Brown - The System (Full)Current video | 3 | 3 | 50% | — | Not verified in the current YouTube metadata | Not verified |
| The Century of the Self (Full Adam Curtis Documentary)documentary · David Lessig | 13 | 13 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| The Century of the Self - Part 1: "Happiness Machines"documentary · JustAdamCurtis | 13 | 9 | 65% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
| Brainwash: The Gender Equality Paradoxdocumentary · hgoetkehgoetke | 6 | 7 | 64% | No recorded overlap | Not verified | Not verified |
THREE SOURCE-BASED CONTEXT POINTS
Why Hacker News recommends it
Each note combines the dataset’s stance label and short rationale; comment bodies are not reproduced. Open the HN source for the original discussion.
The archive classifies this as a contextual reference in “Not even wrong: Why does nobody like pilot-wave theory? [pdf]”. Its short rationale: the source snapshot has no short rationale for this mention.
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