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> The IKEA effect is a finding that people tend to ascribe a higher valuation towards self-assembled products compared to objectively similar products which the
by walrus01 4y ago
> The IKEA effect is a finding that people tend to ascribe a higher valuation towards self-assembled products compared to objectively similar products which they did not assemble.
This does explain a lot about what happens mentally when people self build an AR-15 badly without doing the book learning and research first.
As compared to what they might get as a beginner by dropping two grand for something put together by professionals.
- sbierwagen 4y agoHey now, my AR that won't cycle because I lost the roll pin for the gas block when building it and refuse to spend $10+shipping for just one measly little half gram piece of metal works fine; as a bolt action rifle.
- walrus01 4y agoI'm sure Mr. Stoner would be very pleased.
- justsomehnguy 4y ago> This does explain a lot about what happens mentally when people self build $THING badly without doing the book learning and research first. Did I told the story about a "slow server" where a simple 87Mb MySQL database slowed down to a crawl, like up to 40-60 seconds to respond... but not because we provided bad servers. It was slow because the main query had like 20 "SELECT *" subqueries. But people who don't even understand what SQL is (despite having two programmers and one sysadmin on the team) continued to insist what the problem is with our server, because their "testing server" (a desktop with i7) worked fine. Until I forced them to load their "production data" (87Mb) to their testing server. And suddenly - it started to respond in 40-60 seconds too. Because the test set was like 3Mb (test1, test3, testadflakjfdg and so on). THEY built that PoS, so it couldn't be bad. It must be something else. And now look at r/shittycarmods or whatever it called, same motto.