What if we could run history twice? (Would Madonna still be popular?)

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One difficulty in the study of history is that, although you can make predictions, many are difficult to test. You can argue that the US would have still entered World War II even without Pearl Harbor, but the only way to know for sure is to re-run history without the Japanese sneak attack.
Similarly — and this is the point of the article — you can argue that Madonna rose to become perhaps the cultural icon of the 80s because she anticipated the zeitgeist of the times…or because of luck or good marketing or whatever. Who knows? Maybe Duncan Watts…
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Popularity: 6% [?]

Original post by coglanglab

Popularity: 3% [?]

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