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No, the internet heavily biases towards people who are on the spectrum for Oppositional Defiant Disorder because only the top 1% of people who are the most pass

No, the internet heavily biases towards people who are on the spectrum for Oppositional Defiant Disorder because only the top 1% of people who are the most passionate about any topic ever post and ODD biases people into being passionate about things most people don't care about. Thus, if you read internet comments, you get the impression that some significant fraction of the world has a massive chip on their shoulder and are willing to go to great lengths to defy authority whereas if you ever run analytics for a company, you realize that group of people are almost always a rounding error in terms of impact.

sam_lowry_ 3y ago
You will be surprised to know that ~4% of US workforce works in IT. 4.7% of European workers are in ICT.
- shalmanese 3y ago
  Where in my comment did I mention anything about IT?
hooby 3y ago
Well, most people would not accept the generous offer from the African prince, just because he wrote them an email. And not everyone would buy everything some market crier advertises to them - or order anything that's hyped on some shopping channel. And hopefully not too many would not fall for those scam calls, were the caller claims to be from Microsoft and to need their help (and password) to fix a Virus on their Computer. And not everyone will just blindly agree to every single upsell that any company offers them. Most people are kind of conditioned to be at least somewhat suspicious of anyone trying very hard to convince them of something. I don't know if it's correct to call that a "disorder", kinda implying that this is the "abnormal" behavior - and also implying that agreeing and accepting all of the above is what a "normal" person (with no disorder) would do.
lemmiwinks 3y ago
Keep thinking that way if you wish, but do not complain when your power users leave and your website turns to shit. (related: not sure "impact" was the word you were searching for there)

sam_lowry_ 3y ago

You will be surprised to know that ~4% of US workforce works in IT. 4.7% of European workers are in ICT.

shalmanese 3y ago
Where in my comment did I mention anything about IT?

hooby 3y ago

Well, most people would not accept the generous offer from the African prince, just because he wrote them an email. And not everyone would buy everything some market crier advertises to them - or order anything that's hyped on some shopping channel. And hopefully not too many would not fall for those scam calls, were the caller claims to be from Microsoft and to need their help (and password) to fix a Virus on their Computer. And not everyone will just blindly agree to every single upsell that any company offers them. Most people are kind of conditioned to be at least somewhat suspicious of anyone trying very hard to convince them of something. I don't know if it's correct to call that a "disorder", kinda implying that this is the "abnormal" behavior - and also implying that agreeing and accepting all of the above is what a "normal" person (with no disorder) would do.

lemmiwinks 3y ago

Keep thinking that way if you wish, but do not complain when your power users leave and your website turns to shit. (related: not sure "impact" was the word you were searching for there)