The comic artist seems pretty ignorant to think that it’s not meaningful.
What falsehoods people believe and spread about a particular topic is an excellent way to tell what the public opinion is on something.
Consider spreading a falsehood about Boeing QA getting bonuses based on number of passed planes vs the same falsehood about Airbus. If the Boeing one spreads like wildfire, it tells you that Boeing has a terrible track record of safety and that it’s completely believable.
Back to the start menu. It should be a complete embarrassment to MSFT SWEs that people even think the start menu performance is so bad that it could be implemented in electron.
In summary: what lies spread easily is an amazing signal on public perception. The SMBC comic is dumb.
It's less meaningful than you think. Widespread prejudice does give you signal on public sentiment, but it doesn't give you much signal on whether the prejudice happens to coincide with reality or not, compared to other methods. People should be open to having their prejudices corrected by more relevant information.
hey, haven't seen that one in the wild for a little bit :-D https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah
The comic artist seems pretty ignorant to think that it’s not meaningful.
What falsehoods people believe and spread about a particular topic is an excellent way to tell what the public opinion is on something.
Consider spreading a falsehood about Boeing QA getting bonuses based on number of passed planes vs the same falsehood about Airbus. If the Boeing one spreads like wildfire, it tells you that Boeing has a terrible track record of safety and that it’s completely believable.
Back to the start menu. It should be a complete embarrassment to MSFT SWEs that people even think the start menu performance is so bad that it could be implemented in electron.
In summary: what lies spread easily is an amazing signal on public perception. The SMBC comic is dumb.
It's less meaningful than you think. Widespread prejudice does give you signal on public sentiment, but it doesn't give you much signal on whether the prejudice happens to coincide with reality or not, compared to other methods. People should be open to having their prejudices corrected by more relevant information.
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