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Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question: "why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]" It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good. loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

loadbearingtomato.comWhy chasing twitter's approval doesn't workThe opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

Brian Lynchehaun

@blynchehaun.bsky.social

14 Feb

A lot of what you're talking about here is (and forgive me if you know this already) is 'stated preference' vs 'revealed preference', a long-studied phenomenon in psychology and behavioural economics. Ie stated preferences (eg polls) are almost always 'wrong' with regards to actual behaviour.

christina 死神

@chhopsky.tv

yes, exactly. i try to stay away from using formal UXR terms so it forces the explanation

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christina 死神

@chhopsky.tv

15 Feb

also thank you for your comments, nice to know people get what i’m getting at :)