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"How does blocking access help people view things?" Lieologists have discovered there's a hole in human cognition: If you say "We're doing X because of Y", hum
by jerf 7y ago
"How does blocking access help people view things?"
Lieologists have discovered there's a hole in human cognition: If you say "We're doing X because of Y", human brains tend not to check Y very carefully at all.
You can almost say "To help people view photos in Instagram, we're shutting down photo sharing in Instagram." You can't get away with a lie quite that bald. But you only need a few scraggly hair plugs on that lie to get past most people most of the time, as you observe.
- Zak 7y agoI'd be surprised if this is true. Instead, I read things like this as "we're not going to tell you our reasons", and I suspect most other people do too.
- jerf 7y agoWell, rather than issue a lengthy explanation of why I think I'm right, I suggest this instead: Try turning the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon [1] to the forces of good, and keep an eye out for this sort of thing over the next month. Assuming that there's nothing special about what you do in the next month, the delta between the number of times you think about it in the next month vs. the amount you've thought about it in the previous month is a rough guess for the amount of times you've read a statement like this and it just passed you by with your brain not registering an objection. If you do this honestly, betcha it's more than you think. It's something I see a lot, personally. In fact I tend to be surprised when someone public says "We're doing X because of Y" and it actually makes perfect sense. Most reasons given in the public sphere are quite garbage. [1]: https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/baader-meinhof-phenomenon.htm https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human...
- m463 7y ago"We're doing X because of coronavirus." Yep, your argument is sound.