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You'll have to walk me through your logic on that again. How is repeated exposure more likely to increase positive opinion?
by ethbro 8y ago
You'll have to walk me through your logic on that again.
How is repeated exposure more likely to increase positive opinion?
- misterhtmlcss 8y agoRead up on psychology and his comment will be totally self evident. This is a completely normal phenomenon.
- superkuh 8y agoIt is more likely to be perceived as a common opinion and then people tend to go with what they think the crowd thinks. (PDF) http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Neuroscience/Psychology/Inferring%20the%20Popularity%20of%20an%20Opinion%20From%20Its%20Familiarity_%20A%20Repetitive%20Voice%20Can%20Sound%20Like%20a%20Chorus_%20psp-925821.pdf http://erewhon.superkuh.com/library/Neuroscience/Psychology/...
- ethbro 8y agoThat would work through repeatedly exposing people to positive or favorable news. Aka astroturfing. Aka what I asked about. Parent comment specified the same news, which makes less sense. If I hear 100x that MS is buying GitHub, that doesn't make me more likely to respond favorably.
- saint_fiasco 8y agoSuppose it isn't more likely, that it is just random. All Microsoft has to do is pick the one article that has a positive opinion at the top and promote that one.
- ethbro 8y agoThat's astroturfing. Which is what my original comment was about.
- HeyLaughingBoy 8y agoThat's one of the basic premises of advertising!