Can We Calculate Fear?

[@answerinprogress]

Hope you enjoyed this spooOOky vide*o! As Answer in Progress gets into the swing of things, expect to see more videos of Melissa, Taha, and I hosting our own solo shows. If you want to keep track of our progress, make sure to sign up for our newsletter: answerinprogress.com/newsletter *What is your favourite movie genre?* Feel free to get as specific as you would like because even though I love romcoms, I especially love romcoms where a blonde lady learns that a career isn't everything from a single dad. Bonus points if it happens on Christmas.

[@calamitywindpetal]

My favorite movies are found family quest ish things, and/or training for something incredibly specific (Akeelah and the Bee). Like a sports movie but not about sports.

[@ThePrimevalVoid]

Different genres for different moods, I suppose. Heist and action when I want some adrenaline, but romcoms and comedies generally when I feel a bit low.

[@Rabbit-the-One]

Spooky

[@answerinprogress]

@@calamitywindpetal Ah yes, the genre that is guaranteed to make me cry every time.

[@winonaamores5869]

omg you guys have been sending newsletters already? i cant seem to find one on my emails tho i already signed up

[@AntonWongVideo]

The fact that the result was not 2019's film adaptation of "Cats" is surprising.

[@hawkin939]

Horrible joke. Have a like.

[@beestarjay]

I'd consider that spiritual disgust

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

But the scariest thing about that was that it exists.

[@imperial2252]

cats doesnt induce fear, more disgust and discomfort

[@zerotalk9894]

@@beestarjay more like psychological horror for me

[@madelinegolding4969]

I read the title as “Do calculators fear?”.... I was very excited to tell my math teacher something new 😞😞

[@mattwhaley1865]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one. We need a video on if calculators feel fear or happiness

[@Vyrsamitchell]

They definitely feel disappointment after we type 1+1

[@ryanjoshuacalo9146]

Yeah...this comment deserves top spot

[@danielmachado4389]

Press any combination of buttoms, then "/" and finally "0". Then see how the first step of grief starts: "Denyal", that´s the only thing that could scare a calculator (and some mathematicians)

[@goodnighthawks]

my dumb ass thought it said “do we fear calculators” smh

[@derekfnord]

"Is being an adult just paying for things?" Yes. Yes it is.

[@cypherfunc]

Also wine and existential dread.

[@skepticmoderate5790]

Alternative perspective: Being an adult is being allowed to keep your own money rather than giving it to your deadbeat family.

[@derekfnord]

@@skepticmoderate5790 If you were required to earn money and give it to your deadbeat family, then you were already an adult, regardless of your age.

[@inirafitzpatrick315]

You have the freedom to choose things for yourself and act like yourself

[@3nertia]

@@skepticmoderate5790 You give far more to the government and their corporate subsidies than you give to your "deadbeat family" heh

[@SwitchAndLever]

Doesn't this kind of fail on the assumption that the scariest movie comes out of the horror genre? Personally I find the scariest movies come out of psychological thrillers rather than straight up horror. The kind of stuff that really gets under your skin and has the power to mess with you years down the line. As always, top notch work on the video! Always a good day with a new Sabrina video dropping!

[@answerinprogress]

This data actually accounts for multiple genre tags which is how Dark Shadows (2012) slipped in! I can't promise that every scary thriller was tagged as horror, but I can say that over 7000 movies in my horror dataset were also tagged as thrillers!

[@noahluppe]

I also don't like Horror movies, maybe i'm too afraid i don't know as i don't watch them, but i absolutely love psycho thriller audiobooks, some of them are even based on real cases (maybe just details or parts of the plot), i really can't stop listening if I started one. It's not that they really scare me or that i'm afraid of it, but the very good described actions are objectivley horrifying and/or disgusting if you think about it (wich i don't really do in the moment of listening, the story keeps my attention away from overthinking it).

[@SwitchAndLever]

@@answerinprogress thank you for the clarification Sabrina, I should have known better! 😄

[@Tonydev7]

I think psychological thrillers are just a special brand of horror. If it brings the terror that Serena’s talking about in this video, there are probably other elements of disgust and horror that can be found in the psychological thriller.

[@noahluppe]

@@Tonydev7 That's again a problem with different definitions of the same topics. When think horror movie I think of a murderer in a mask or paranormal situations or cults and so on. But in the psycho thrillers i listen to, the bad guy is a seemingly normal person, maybe with mental issues, that is a deranged monster privately but never in public. And of course the protagonist most of time doesn't know who it is until late in the story, you just get corpses, medical examiners, investigators, victims and so on, but not the culprit, at least not at the same time as the protagonist you're following, maybe only as a little insert to tease the course of events that gonna accur.

[@georgesmith4768]

Perhaps the real horror was the data collection we did along the way

[@riaupreti4725]

omg i loved the video but the ANIMATIONS?? the transitions between elements ... wow!! good job y'all :D

[@BrianWaltonDeveloper]

Good to know I wasn't the only one. I stopped the video @3:23 just because the quality was so good I had to ensure that someone commented on the sheer majesty. I am at peace now and can resume watching.

[@JimMcKeeth]

Agreed. They are great.

[@TheMrFabian1]

2020 was scary enough so far. Do we really have to push it?

[@answerinprogress]

Had to hold back from making infinite 2020 jokes in this video. Let this be your escape into fun horror not.... crushing reality horror.

[@funkuro]

@@answerinprogress so, be scared, but only the good kind?

[@beks6197]

I'm a 30 year old who left STEM because my little niche was super hostile to women, I've switched to teaching and every time I teach a science course I use your videos, so thank you for both making quality content and for being a great role model for kids! I know it has nothing to do with the video but I thought you'd like to hear about it

[@Ahaana-qg8tn]

Im sorry if this is too personal but what was the niche? Im a women too and im going to get into stem after high school

[@calamitywindpetal]

Only 2-8%?????? What???? I suffer from this and I just assumed most people do what the heck

[@answerinprogress]

This was my exact reaction when I learned. Apparently people just get to sleep, unhindered by terror.

[@AceIsInLastPlace]

SAME

[@Selestrielle]

Regular (apparently) adult here! Can confirm most of my dreams aren't terrifying. And when they are, it's usually small-time/everyday unpleasantness like dreaming that my friend is angry at me, or that my cat ran away.

[@kitsch_bitch]

samee

[@PedroMiguel-zv3fj]

I don't even dream, just straight up sleep

[@aimes_seagreen]

“I hope my stats professor never sees this” 😂

[@YukikoOdair]

the animation is so aesthetically pleasing!! where do you get the ideas and can you recommend any resources for learning motion design??

[@answerinprogress]

I usually use Instagram and Dribbble as my main sources for inspiration, and I recommend some courses at the end of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bYiZpoZ8bp2VbNU

[@KleinOfficial]

Consistently amazed with the production quality of the videos on this channel, especially since it's such a small operation

[@xEternalSoul]

i vaugly remember hearing that horror trends play into what society at the time is scared of, that 1930-50s alien invasion trend was really rooted in fear of foreign invaders (prob ties into the word wars, people scared of spies and informants and things) and i mean- serial killers really peaked in 1970-80s for some reason idk murder was a trendy past time for men then so that probably works out for the slasher trend

[@reeree488]

I think the serial killer ideas was more of a new fear (or maybe extended from 30-50s) of unknown other people and with movies like Halloween where the killer with his mask, hiding on Halloween where the weapon could be a prop and he could have a costume. Then with more movies with the supernatural it extends again, showing why the exorcist was so popular with this idea of possession and that monsters could be hiding between any person.

[@DarkkestNite]

As someone who gets *way* too scared of horror stuff to even watch scary movies, the sound design in this video was enough to wig me out @.@ Well done!

[@Tincantimmothy]

Agreed

[@JCBeast616]

I mean, the thing that scare me the most is that at 22 you are consider an adult and you have to pay for things.Really scary

[@noahv7528]

“I think there’s nothing scarier than not being able to trust your senses.” Confirmed: Sabrina ended up in the domain of the Spiral after the Change

[@rowen9]

hahaha I was looking for a tma comment! I was hearing about disgust and thinking Ah good old Corruption and Flesh

[@meganfair9891]

I actually was fortunate enough to take a class on horror films in college (i signed up by accident, actually) but it was all about how the space of the house or the home in a horror film affects the psychological response to danger, because in those films, the unknown has come and crossed into what should be a space we feel safe in (the home) and i just think that's super neat

[@breadfastcereal8201]

if my heist movie doesn’t have found family and friends then what’s the dang point

[@cartboi2750]

Did not expect a Ginger Dead Man reference and im not happy that I remember that movie

[@isnakolah]

I've got to say that Sabrina has the best animations out there, damn

[@JordanThatblondegirl]

Sabrina, I am SCREAMING about this video and not in the horror movie way. This is so crisp and well done and FASCINATING. I hope you and the rest of the team that worked on it are proud AF of yourselves. This is phenomenal work, y’all.

[@darwinfermin4114]

You know, this week was full of horrible midterms, but this? This bring a smile to my face.

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

Midterms cause disgust, terror, and horror.

[@VillagerJack]

6:25 i was not ready for that my heart is gone

[@Nossairito]

Ok for real I can't believe how qualitative everything about your channel is from the editing to the humor to the research ... I'm just so very thankful you view making videos as something worth your while : ')

[@IceMetalPunk]

Your crisis at the pronunciation of "horror" reminded me of a classic Whose Line Is It Anyway? bit and now I'm just laughing at apparently nothing 😂 "Ho-roar"

[@KnittikatRetraystat]

Finding the scariest movie with machine learning? Gremlins. It’s Gremlins

[@GC-hn3dq]

the amount of time that you put into every video never ceases to amaze!! love ittt

[@chooseitwisely98]

I'll never get over how well these videos are written. The production value, the editing, everything is flawless but ngl it's the writing for me.

[@t-shades7148]

Currently binging your videos and I'm surprised to find out you're only 22 and you're so talented! How do you have the time/energy to attend college, research, code, draw, AND make such beautifully edited and animated videos??? I barely had the energy to do one of those things at your age (and I have even less energy now...)

[@tesswoods7952]

The Exorcist is one of my all time favorite horror films! I think your instinct to use release date as a contributing factor in clustering was spot on. The Exorcist, as a film, is often thought as conservative reaction to the Vietnam war and the Women's Lib Movement. So, essentially, the "scariness" of a horror film is inextricably linked with the sociopolitical goings on of the time.

[@Rabbit-the-One]

Yes, Depp in his 2010's era Burton run. I was terrified of his acting.

[@yourdad3113]

This was a vibe

[@aldreiong7679]

Im a Filipino engineering student and I love your machine learning videos! Keep doing more!

[@williamrutherford553]

Glad to see another ML/AI video from you! As a ML Student at UofT, it's great to see people outside the field learning about and using it for interesting things like this, instead of using the same couple datasets easily available online.

[@KlarkyMalarky]

Imagine Sabrina, Mark Rober, Michael Reeves, and William Osman all working together to make the best collaboration ever created

[@qwertyTRiG]

Can I throw in Vi Hart?

[@robertbernard7844]

Oh boy, I'm looking forward to that beautiful disaster.

[@m4rcyonstation93]

FYI Tom scott has collabed with william and micheal

[@shieldmaiden3791]

This is super fascinating and I'm still impressed with how you manged to teach yourself machine learning. While watching, one thought kept lurking in the back of my mind: what about movies that did poorly at the box office due to circumstances (e.g. The Thing doing poorly because E.T. recently came out and people wanted friendly aliens instead of scary ones), but are genuinely scary and developed respect at a later time?

[@rowanprice3291]

I've been watching your videos for YEARS and every little while there's some magnificent jump in production quality and it ROCKS This is one of those times!! This video kicks ass!!!!!

[@controllerpleb6568]

Just an idea on how the methodology could be improved in the future: In addition to box office numbers, user ratings for the movie would also be helpful. Metacritic has ratings for most movies, so that would be a much larger data set for you. It would also give you the critical reception versus audience reception. I don't know if that's helpful, but it's data and computers like data.

[@markrebollido5551]

Sabrina doesn't know how much she has helped me in my classes this year. Her at home video style really elevated my videos, as well as her researches.

[@fliphusslove]

I love this but I hate that every jump scare got me everytime

[@wolframkreipl3724]

The true horror was the amount of work behind this analysis all along.

[@bronwynknox3605]

I also didn’t know this about nightmares until recently. I’m 21 now, I was talking to my friends about nightmares saying “oh you know nightmares, they suck don’t they?” And one of my friends went “oh yeah I had one about 6 months ago, they’re really bad when they come around”. I thought she was taking the piss because I get nightmares at least once a week. But whatever I think it just means I have an active imagination.

[@PrettyTranslatorSarahMoon]

I've had chronic nightmares my entire life. I'm 42 years old now and I still get them rather regularly. I used to think this was normal until quite recently 😅

[@mich3833]

I love how visual and smooth your videos are! It makes it way easier to understand topics you're not used to. Great video as always

[@Nana-tv1do]

spooky good video :D The sound and animations were on point and congrats on getting machine learning to do something helpful for once! K-means is a great tool for so many things even though the idea behind it is pretty straightforward :)

[@rebasack21]

i was born bipolar and it wasnt until my mid 20s that i started to really find a way to escape the severe depression and other hells that were all my own brain. My primary way of escape growing up was reading, especially horror. I still find horror movies and books while interesting, not remotely scary. I guess when your own mind is a more terrifying place than the fictional horrors it has little or no power to scare you.

[@VegemiteQueen1]

I tried to rewatch The Gremlins as an adult because it terrified me so much as a child. Middle of the day in a brightly lit room, I only lasted until one jumped out of a cupboard (I can still picture it) and I was DONE. Something about puppets freaks me out so much, I also despise ET. I generally find horror almost boring (drawing the line at the Exorcist, that was disgusting) but you put a puppet in there and I'm out.

[@scootmctoot]

I can't believe you only have 300k subscribers. The pure amount of work that you put into each video outranks some of the biggest youtubers in the world, keep up the good work!

[@thelightbulb6657]

fear is a complex thing to me, but all i know is that everything stops when that horror and terror you've felt before when you want to, and that you've gotten used to is randomly shoved at you, and this time it isnt fake. you expect a stop, a quiet moment, a chance to look away, but when its real life, that isnt available.

[@ellieoberstein4172]

Love the video section titles, it's insane how your personality oozes through even there!!

[@kinorinadiy]

What I fear the most? Betrayal. Why do I have this fear? Experience.

[@thelibragamine]

This is simply amazing, I feel so inspired watching and analyzing the formation of your videos! Thank you for taking your time to share

[@VioletSadi]

I really love your keyboard, your animation, and your sense of humour

[@jasonayer8159]

I love this so much! Especially all the plants!

[@Rabbit-the-One]

I see. Well then I'd suppose it's closer to 8% I also have regular nightmares.

[@answerinprogress]

Welcome to the nightmare squad.

[@aiiak1531]

youtube recommended me to you a couple of days ago and now i can't stop watching your every video! you're so genuinely funny and your graphics are amazing and i really like how you structure your videos! hope you're well!

[@XxTheSoundOfRainxX]

"Paranormal activity in a wig" is the best description I've ever heard for mainstream horror movies of the 2010s

[@Danielsworlds]

As a child I struggled a lot with night terrors. It got so bad that I was afraid to go to sleep. But I basically stop dreaming nearly all together. I'm 25 now and I cannot tell you the last time I had a dream. It still happens but it happens so very rarely that it's not worth mentioning. Now I also am a really bad Insomniac and don't sleep well so these two things are almost certainly connected. Though when I do have dreams more often than not they are still nightmares

[@dharmiksoni5968]

I really like the Explanation of horror and what makes us scared. It was very well animated and looked like it came from a VOX Explained series. Well done.

[@commaman5013]

Hopefully the recommendation system of KZbin will FINALLY catch that your content is AMAZING and more people need to see it

[@Waywardemigod]

i love how well researched (all things considered) and honest these videos are

[@hibak_]

This was so cool as always! The animation the way the music made me lowkey feel like I was watching a horror movie plus it was generally informative and I’m happy to see machine learning back lol

[@sebbychou]

Oh man that intro. I used to not only wake up afraid of being murdered but had strong audiovisual hallucination when I woke up too. Beautiful graphics in this episode, btw.

[@steelytemplar]

As an adult, a disproportionate number of my nightmares have to do with either a University or workplace situation. Often, some variation of having forgotten to do something that I was supposed to have been doing for a long time. For example, showing up at a class on the day that a major paper is due when I have forgotten to even attend the class for months. Or, similarly, showing up to work and realizing that I have been forgetting to come to work up until now. It might also be worth noting that all of my workplace nightmares take place in retail environments rather than involving my current career in IT. That probably says something about how I feel about both my earlier retail jobs and my current work.

[@nickchow9291]

After being suggested several videos of yours and thoroughly enjoying every one of them, 2:26 is what made me subscribe.

[@storystimmler]

I understand the having nightmares as an adult thing--I used to literally never have nightmares when I was younger, but as I grew older and became more stressed, I started having nightmares more often. (I define nightmare as a dream that actually scares you, btw. All my dreams have risk involved (because they always have plots), but I'm rarely actually scared in them.) Or at least, I used to be. My dreams scare me more and more lately, especially when they're about waves. What's up with that?

[@blue_champignon5738]

I just started a data science grad program (from an anthropology/sociology background, lol I'm dying) and these videos are really fun to see machine learning done in a very accessible way that's not so stats intensive

[@ciara947]

Sabrina your content has always been good but lately it's been so wonderful

[@dani4229]

Yay! She hath returned!

[@mimi_h]

1. I love the cute thumbnail ghosts! 2. This was fascinating!

[@martafonseca5475]

I love your personality, really takes these videos to another level

[@cosmiclatte8716]

I love all your videos!!! I always recommend you when people ask questions that you've made videos about.💖💖

[@justalilbugman]

This video oozes quality, atleast for me. Entertaining Educational is my kink, and you did a good job of that. Thank you for this video!

[@selectedshipper8282]

“The fear of being chainsaw massacred in Texas” that had no right to be that funny

[@John-ci8yk]

Thank you for the time and effort you put into your video, thumbs up.

[@peytonahem2572]

i think it’s things we see as children that scares us the most, all of the 80’s 90’s children will go back and rewatch cluster 4 because it’s imprinted them like it and get out have imprinted me, a middle 2000’s kid.

[@weirdral]

1. I love your rabbit holes, they're like mine, but more sciencey. 2. I love the effect Psycho had on the movie theater, which might change how the rest of movies were made from then on.

[@gio31415]

amazing video, Sabrina! i am watching this before sleeping and I really wish I hadn't remember those gremlins. They are SPOOKY (great one by the way)

[@congruentcrib]

So this started as “can we calculate fear” and it turned into “what we fear the most”. Kinda got lost there, but from my extensive studies and knowledge (KZbin… just lots of KZbin) what we fear most is best found by boiling away everything until we are we are left with 1 thing. That 1 thing is “The Unknown”. Nothing scares us more than not knowing. Not knowing makes us afraid because we don’t know how to avoid it, we don’t know how to counter it, and we don’t know when to expect it.

[@touseff]

Why dont you have 1M?? Your awesome!

[@rohaanomar7003]

I love the way you document your videos!

[@ilurvsharrypotter]

I went to Evermore Park last weekend, and they have a Halloween, vampiric circus visiting right now. While my friends and I sat by a fire warming ourselves, the Creepy as Heck assistant ringmaster told us her specialty was detecting people's greatest fears. We said, "yeah sure" but NO JOKE she got in the ball park for all four of us, it was freaky

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

I used to get wicked nightmares as a kid, and therefore avoided horror like the plague. Then I started watching Nightmare on Elm Street with my grandma. And while I'd still have nightmares immediately after watching the movies, for the most part, they stopped. As an adult, I watch horror almost exclusively, and in fact try to induce nightmares, as they are the ones I'm most likely to realize I'm dreaming in, which means I can do what I want. (Monster movie nightmares, not "my life sucks" nightmares) But alas, I rarely have such nightmares. So my suggestion, is watch more horror, and embrace the nightmares. Unless you have an underlying medical condition, nightmares can't actually hurt you. And you'll probably stop having them when they stop scaring you.

[@Lozoot2]

adults don't get nightmares because they're living them every day you're in the lucky 8% that only gets them during sleep

[@harshchelani9896]

Melissa, nice horror audio work.

[@melissafernandes8246]

I spooked myself while editing the SFX haha thank you!

[@omhanimsougar9910]

Well researched, incredibly interesting and entertaining, and fantastically executed 👏🏼👏🏼

[@riley25321]

when i am stressed i have nights where i wake up half a dozen different times from all different nightmares. it's so weird that most people don't have that???

[@TigerAceSullivan]

Can I just say, I appreciate that you have proper subtitles on your videos?

[@prettycolors2]

New Sabrina making work today that much more bearable! and don't worry I still get nightmares too... It's weird to me that some people don't dream at all. I almost can't imagine sleeping without dreaming.

[@LeeCarlson]

I treat fear as an acronym for Fantasies Experienced As Reaily. It is when our brains cease upon the direst of outcomes (not necessarily the most likely outcomes) and then project that into our consciousness as the ONLY possible outcome.

[@lanaeglover818]

0:34: Me either - just started my thirties here, still a nightmare magnet

[@martinowong]

I love your Motion Design!

[@caitlinwolf8858]

Sabrina verbally telling herself to stop is so relatable

[@randomtinypotatocried]

Same here on constantly having nightmares. Though it might be stress related.

[@yesitissammy]

we stan sabrina’s narration voice 💓💓💓💓

[@nobodyyouknow8116]

1. Cool Software, would love a video about the functioning of it. 2. The findings do make sense to me... Even though psychological and societal terror follows me every step of my cursed life, my reaction to gremlins is immediate and instinctual.

[@jaebby9695]

Wait can we please talk about the nightmares. Literally I can’t remember ever having just a regular dream, all my dreams end in either me accepting getting murdered or having to murder someone else. I’m 23 and didn’t know people actually had regular good dreams until last year

[@Tonydev7]

The production quality of this video is INSANE!

[@ferretappreciator]

"imagining all of the ways things can go wrong" hey, why did you describe me