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Given two headlines: - "foo suspected of sexual misconduct" @t=0 - "foo proved to be innocent in sexual misconduct case" @t+1 mo/yr/whatevs Guess: - what pe
by lloeki 9y ago
Given two headlines:
- "foo suspected of sexual misconduct" @t=0
- "foo proved to be innocent in sexual misconduct case" @t+1 mo/yr/whatevs
Guess:
- what people will consciously or subconsciously remember when scanning through Google results
- which one will get the most clicks/views/pagerank at various points in time
That is, if they ever continue and look for the second one. And even if it were the last one, many (most?) people will be subconsciously biased anyway by the shock effect of the foo <-> sexual misconduct tie, which obliterates the "innocent" part.
- sincerely 9y agoPeople aren't proven innocent (at least in the US), they're found "not guilty", which is significantly distinct