Scott Cole

1 Introduction Evidence abounds concerning the effects of motivational variables on academic performance. For instance, self-efficacy—the feeling of confidence in one's abilities—is a robust positive predictor of educational outcomes (see review by Schunk and DiBenedetto 2020). Another key area of research concerns learning goals, such as mastering a certain topic or outperforming other students (Dweck 1986; Senko 2019).

July 31, 2023 Several websites have ranked all of the episodes in Seasons 1-6 of Black Mirror. Similar to my analysis of “I Think You Should Leave” skits, I wanted to analyze these rankings and compare them to my own opinions. The plots and tables below show some insights into the Black Mirror episode rankings, generated from the data I aggregated in this spreadsheet, which you can contribute your own rankings to. Plots were generated using this Colab Notebook. Top-ranked episodes Figure 1.

June 12, 2023 Multiple websites have ranked the best skits in “I Think You Should Leave.” I wanted to analyze them a bit and compare those rankings to my own opinions. The plots and tables below show a few different rankings of all the skits from Seasons 1-3. I aggregated the data in this spreadsheet, which you can contribute your own rankings to. Plots were generated using this Colab Notebook. Figure 1. Ranking of all “I Think You Should Leave” skits from Seasons 1-3.