And 100% of those, reading this, will assume they're in the 5%.
It's 99.5%, not 95%. Fortunately I'm in that .5%.
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#12This post has kind of a linkbait title, given that the actual content is pretty insightful. The 99.5% comment is really referring to the social media experts missing the bigger point.
tl;dr social media isn't just a tactic to dabble in, because it opens the floodgates for end user communication. It's potentially a revolutionary way to establish context with users, but you have to be ready to engage fully or it can do more harm than good.
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#14This post has kind of a linkbait title, given that the actual content is pretty insightful. The 99.5% comment is really referring to the social media experts missing the bigger point. tl;dr social media isn't just a tactic to dabble in, because it opens the floodgates for end user communication. It's potentially a revolutionary way to establish context with users, but you have to be ready to engage fully or it can do…
That last sentence was some kind of amazingly subtle, spot on, parody, right? This is a troll, right, this is you, trolling me?
You didn't just seriously use the phrase "a revolutionary way to establish context with users", unironically. Right?
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#15Every moron with a social networking account and a college degree markets themselves as a "social media expert" and I take anyone with that label about as seriously as I do anyone who calls themselves a "Tech Crunch journalist" (except, of course, at least Tech Crunch doesn't pretend to be journalism).
The classic summary [NSFW]:
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
p(e|c) = p(c|e)*p(e)/p(c) = .995*p(e)/p(c) ~ .3/.75 = .4
How do you know what values p(e) and p(c) are?
You've just learned the dirty secret of financial modeling - it's a lot of math and statistics built on top of on possibly arbitrary guesses of prior probabilities.
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#19Only 99.5%?
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