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by btilly 5129 days ago
This is absolutely true. I had the opportunity to complain about this once to a big name Hollywood producer, and he told me that the rule of thumb that most movie makers use is, "If we don't know the difference, our audience won't either."

Occasionally they hire experts to be sure they get it right, but that is more the exception than the rule, and mostly happens when a feeling of realism is considered important for the part.

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It was so absolutely nice that NUMB3RS hired actual applied math geeks to write the equations that their statistician uses to solve crimes.

If only they had hired a computer geek to write the crap about the Turing test. ;_;

Yeah, if I remember correctly "NUMB3RS" likens IRC to pirates trading illegal drugs in international waters.