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This is a great brainstorming tool for doing light blogspam-style "journalism", if your readers don't know about it (which they probably don't). Draw something
by _delirium 13y ago
This is a great brainstorming tool for doing light blogspam-style "journalism", if your readers don't know about it (which they probably don't). Draw something with a rather unlikely looking feature— a graph that strikes the reader as quite definitely not just random noise. See if you get anything interesting in return. If yes, conjure up a backstory, and write up a post in a confident, assertive tone, that closes with the graph as your "care to explain this?!" evidence nailing home your suspicion.
- benologist 13y agoThat's far too much effort when they can just monitor RSS feeds and reword someone else's work.
- solistice 13y agoWhy do you think they'd actually monitor those themselves? Get a bot to monitor them, and a text spinner to reword the texts.
- CompelTechnic 13y agoconfirmation bias in its most unadulterated form. excellent.
- _delirium 13y agoIn a way it's even an improvement on confirmation bias. With confirmation bias, you have a conclusion you want to sell, and selectively search for evidence that might support it. But with this suggestion, you search for interesting evidence, and then invent a conclusion that it might support, post-hoc.
- Strilanc 13y agoIt's actually cherry picking, not confirmation bias.
- ZirconCode 13y agoDraw a positive line which abruptly goes to 0 and invent conspiracy theories about what they're trying to hide from us. Is brooks pharmacy being censored by the government?! (1) Doctors hate them, lobbyists~ etc... Source: http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:5J79rEBVGkI&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id:5J79rEBVG...
- wyager 13y agohttp://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AEJ2JLv5IbgI&e=bank+of+america+government&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AEJ2JLv5... http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AEJ2JLv5IbgI&e=america+government&t=weekly&p=us http://www.google.com/trends/correlate/search?e=id%3AEJ2JLv5...