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Clive Thompson on How Group Think Rules What We Like
- alanthonyc 17y agothey ranked the fake-high ones high, even downloading them, while snubbing the fake-low ones. Apparently, flat-out lying works. But only sometimes. Eventually, some of the previously top-ranked songs began to creep back up, and previously bottom-ranked ones slid down. My takeaway: Societal cues are a heuristic that can help people make decisions more quickly/efficiently. However, these can be overturned (when wrong) by actual evaluations of intrinsic quality. I actually don't see anything wrong with that system.
- jasonshen 17y agoWhat's ironic is that HN is just like that. A very meta link.
- RyanMcGreal 17y agoFTA: > Eventually, some of the previously top-ranked songs began to creep back up, and previously bottom-ranked ones slid down. And people in the upside-down world downloaded fewer songs overall. Funny how the article emphasized our sheepishness while relegating clear counter-evidence to the dregs of the article. Also: why is the article titled, "Clive Thompson on How Group Think Rules What We Like", if not to trade on Thompson's presumed popularity? (Disclosure: I've never heard of him. Not sure if that should make me less or more susceptible to the groupthink of seeing his name in the headline.)
- billybob 17y agoI had trouble parsing that headline - a rousing game of "find the verb."