Orange juice exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago

Post by xtiansimon » Sun, Feb 25, 2018, 3:12 PM UTC

philipodonnell wrote: post #13

This is a particularly clever form of clickbait. The article describes how citrus, generally migrated from the Himalayas due to climate change. The title says orange juice. Notice the subtle bait and switch here. Citrus exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago Oranges exist due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago Orange juice exists due to climate change in the Himalaya…

If you _liked_ that, then you'll love James Burke's Connections TV series [1] and books of the same title [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections_(TV_series)#Conten... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burke_(science_historian...

Post by tinymollusk » Sun, Feb 25, 2018, 5:54 PM UTC

infogulch wrote: post #17

philipodonnell wrote: post #13

This is a particularly clever form of clickbait. The article describes how citrus, generally migrated from the Himalayas due to climate change. The title says orange juice. Notice the subtle bait and switch here. Citrus exists due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago Oranges exist due to climate change in the Himalayas millions of years ago Orange juice exists due to climate change in the Himalaya…

User-engagement optimizing "tricks" used by social networks and news sites will stop working eventually, and leave users with a bad taste of your company. Using data mining and A/B testing we are basically enrolling all users in a constant social science experiment so they can help us better hack their own brain. But following it blindly is incredibly short-sighted. Yes it works, but every time you trick someone it e…

> every time you trick someone it ekes away at their trust and happiness using your platform. But this occurs over many such interactions so it won't show up in your metrics until much later

Is there any way to prove when this is about to happen, or has happened? Otherwise it seems just as likely that users could have less distaste over time because the site has optimized to show them what they like.

If analytics can't measure it, and users dont notice it, how can we know if its real? Does every site that does a lot of a/b testing have this happen, and if not, what are the objective conditions under which it happens?

(disclaimer: I just launched a split testing product offering.)

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