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Problem is: the people who care already know, and the majority of people don't care. They care enough to "share" a headline on Facebook, not to actually read th
by JonFish85 11y ago
Problem is: the people who care already know, and the majority of people don't care. They care enough to "share" a headline on Facebook, not to actually read the conclusions. "Scientists link coffee drinking to smart gene!"--how many people would read further than just sharing with their friends, regardless of, say, the New York Times' rebuttal of such an argument. It's not about accuracy, it's about virality.
- 100ideas 11y ago"Research shows sharing links on social networks prevents cancer"
- kbenson 11y agoA common part of many cons is to not just get the mark to accept the offer that looks to benefit them, but to make them feel they are doing something good at the same time. There are people who will resist doing the moral thing when it doesn't benefit them, there are people who will resist doing the thing that benefits them if it's not moral, but there's very few that will resist something that offers both. It's a double whammy, right to our reward centers.
- lutusp 11y ago> ... "Scientists link coffee drinking to smart gene!" Complete agreement, especially with respect to the word "link", which seems ideally suited to exploit public ignorance of the fact that a link means a correlation, not a cause-effect relationship.