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You may want to investigate what the halo effect is about. It's not very rational to judge a man as a whole from just one trait. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H
by oscardelben 15y ago
You may want to investigate what the halo effect is about. It's not very rational to judge a man as a whole from just one trait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect
- suprgeek 15y agoSure, but is that not what this story is doing anyway? Holding the frugality of a rich man as a great virtue and writing an article is indeed judging him on one trait
- oscardelben 15y agoI think that you can be interesting enough to be worth an article even though you may have some other weak trait. All of us have some. In this specific case I can assure you that smoking is seen differently in various countries. For example when I visited the US I was astonished to see that smoking was prohibited near most buildings, etc, which is totally a good thing, it's just not like that everywhere else.