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It used to make no sense to me how people would put so much effort into things like this that don’t matter. Yes, the photo is originally from Playboy, but most
by throwaway920333 4y ago
It used to make no sense to me how people would put so much effort into things like this that don’t matter. Yes, the photo is originally from Playboy, but most people don’t even know that because it’s cropped. It’s just a picture of a woman’s face.
This and things like renaming master to main I now see as examples of the foot-in-the-door strategy[1]. Get people and teams to agree to a small request like changing their test image, and then they will be more likely to go along with big changes later, because they have publicly expressed support for diversity goals and they have a psychological need to remain consistent in their actions (avoid cognitive dissonance)
[1] https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/Influence_Compliance/Freedman_Fraser_Foot-in-the-door.pdf https://web.mit.edu/curhan/www/docs/Articles/15341_Readings/...
- whamlastxmas 4y agoThis is a slippery slope fallacy
- throwaway920333 4y agoYou can call it a fallacy, but it's scientifically proven to work (see the reference in the parent comment).
- whamlastxmas 4y agoMy point is that these "foot in the door" changes are reasonable on their own merits without it being some ulterior motive to ask for more later. And making the assumption that there is indeed this motivation to ask for more later, and so we should disallow these requests today, is the slippery slope "what will they ask for next?!" fallacy I agree that human psychology likely works that way, though.