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> If negative, anonymous feedback here disuades and disenchants them, what hope is there? Absolutely. See Dropbox's Show HN, the slashdot iPod announcement, an
by krebby 12y ago
> If negative, anonymous feedback here disuades and disenchants them, what hope is there?
Absolutely. See Dropbox's Show HN, the slashdot iPod announcement, and every other worthwhile product ever. As a community we're pretty bad at picking successes.
- pekk 12y agoPeople are also erroneously overrating things all the time. The problem with our predictions isn't a skew to negativity, just the normal inability to predict the future due to lack of knowledge.
- krebby 12y agoThere's also a definite survivorship bias (and an equally strong failure bias) to remember only the outliers. Most ideas fall squarely in the middle and we promptly forget about them. (obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1497/ https://xkcd.com/1497/)