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Nothing succeeds like success
- nopinsight 13y agoThere is an interesting comment thread below the article. http://www.economist.com/comment/2369619#comment-2369619 http://www.economist.com/comment/2369619#comment-2369619 I'd say that in addition to learning from failures, having the energy, resourcefulness, and courage to try enough times to gain the necessary lessons is also important.
- jezell 13y agoAmazing what science can conclusively prove with statistics gathered using sample sizes of 200.
- cateye 13y agoLink to the paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/23/1316836111.full.pdf http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/04/23/1316836111.full...
- toppy 13y ago"Sorry… We are performing essential site maintenance and should be back soon. We apologise for the inconvenience." You've killed The Economist!
- gd1 13y agoNot to state the bleeding obvious, but isn't real life a little bit different to the internet? If I want to see which kickstarters have had a modicum of success, I just do a descending sort. It doesn't work like that in real life.
- eroded 13y agoI fail to see the difference between "real life" and "the Internet". Surely they're the same thing these days?
- gd1 13y agoDidn't I just explain it? I can't do a descending sort of every store on my local high street based on their success so far. These things snowball on the internet because the sorting and quantifying process lends itself to viral snowballing.