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Thank you. It seems that people read the title of the post, skimmed through half of it, then rushed to post their opinion. Reminds me of an Ars Technica experim
by anindyabd 12y ago
Thank you. It seems that people read the title of the post, skimmed through half of it, then rushed to post their opinion. Reminds me of an Ars Technica experiment I read about in Jeff Atwood's blog [1]:
"Ars Technica ran a little experiment in 2011. When they posted Guns at home more likely to be used stupidly than in self defense, embedded in the last sentence of the seventh paragraph of the article was this text:
If you have read this far, please mention Bananas in your comment below. We're pretty sure 90% of the respondants to this story won't even read it first.
The first person to do this is on page 3 of the resulting discussion, comment number 93."
[1] http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-2/ http://blog.codinghorror.com/because-reading-is-fundamental-...
- jnbiche 12y agoNice try discounting our opinions about interviewing by citing a completely unrelated forum and article. I'm sure you know the name of that particular logical fallacy. Despite my frustration with the attitude displayed toward interviewers, I actually did read to the end because I'm in the middle of reading Concrete Mathematics[1], which starts with the Tower of Hanoi. So I was interested in his solution. 1. Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science. Graham, Knuth, Patashnik.
- anindyabd 12y agoI'm not sure how citing the article discounts your opinion about interviewing. All it does is say that it's common for people to make comments without reading through entire articles. I'm sure there are plenty of people who do read through articles, but I'm also sure there are plenty of others who don't, and the experiment proves it.