Donnerstag, 28. März 2024

Die Reiter-Metapher:

Ein Reiter glaubt, dem Elefanten sagen zu können, was er zu machen hat, bis dann der Tag kommt, an dem der Elefant dann doch wieder das macht, was er tun will.

https://twitter.com/Schmidt_Erwin/status/1773134720391414101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Erotische Anziehung:

"Erotische Anziehung kann sich durch ein tiefes Gefühl der Faszination oder ein starkes Verlangen nach einer anderen Person äußern, das sowohl physische als auch psychologische Konnotationen hat. Erotische Anziehung kann sich in Wünschen nach körperlicher Nähe, Berührung oder sexuellen Handlungen mit der betreffenden Person manifestieren, aber sie kann auch subtilere Formen der Zuneigung und des Begehrens einschließen, die nicht unbedingt in körperliche Intimität münden müssen.

Ein wichtiger Aspekt der erotischen Anziehung ist, dass sie sich deutlich von anderen Formen der Anziehung unterscheiden kann. Jemand kann sich zu einer Person hingezogen fühlen aufgrund deren Aussehen (ästhetische Anziehung), Persönlichkeit (emotionale Anziehung) oder der Wunsch nach einer romantischen Beziehung (romantische Anziehung), ohne notwendigerweise ein erotisches Begehren zu empfinden. Erotische Anziehung ist spezifisch mit der Sexualität und den sexuellen Aspekten einer Beziehung verbunden."

Intelligence:

"Society sorts blatantly and quietly for intelligence in a thousand ways, but looking too directly at it feels like staring into the sun."

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Charles Murray:

"1. My closest friends are in the same ballpark intellectually as I am, for the obvious reasons that others have expressed. It is normal to like to be around people who get our jokes and have a lot of the same tastes and preferences.

2. But my life has included a rich tapestry of people, starting with the guys at the pool hall in Newton, Iowa and continuing through the last 34 years in a small town in rural Maryland, who I am smarter than (IQ-wise) and yet whose company I enjoy and whose virtues I admire. If I had stayed in the Harvard/MIT/DC bubble after age 18, I would have had a diminished life."

Mittwoch, 27. März 2024

Negativity drives online news consumption:

Claire E. Robertson et al.


Abstract

Online media is important for society in informing and shaping opinions, hence raising the question of what drives online news consumption. Here we analyse the causal effect of negative and emotional words on news consumption using a large online dataset of viral news stories. Specifically, we conducted our analyses using a series of randomized controlled trials (N = 22,743). Our dataset comprises ~105,000 different variations of news stories from Upworthy.com that generated ∼5.7 million clicks across more than 370 million overall impressions. Although positive words were slightly more prevalent than negative words, we found that negative words in news headlines increased consumption rates (and positive words decreased consumption rates). For a headline of average length, each additional negative word increased the click-through rate by 2.3%. Our results contribute to a better understanding of why users engage with online media.

Types:

Quintus Curtius:

>The truth is that women have types. Either you're her type, or you are not. You're not really going to "win over" a woman whose criteria you do not meet. All you can do is display your plumage in the forest. And it will attract or repel accordingly.<

Weirding:

Diana Fleischman:

"One way to improve the chances of a man's fidelity is a process I call "weirding"- changing a man to shrink his pool of available mates. You can get him into libertarianism, or knitting, or podcasts about optimal male performance that cause him to stay off his phone and go to bed at 8pm."