Makes sense.

Pointed via Reddit, an interesting observation from a survey about scam-spotting.

Extroverts have a harder time detecting fake reviews.

Makes complete sense. Unpopular people NEVER experience a positive reaction in real life, so we KNOW from long and painful experience that EVERY positive reaction is fake.

Popular people ALWAYS get positive reactions, so their experience tells them that positive reviews are real.

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Incidentally, the source of this study is Ponderwall. I haven’t seen it before. It looks like a nicely balanced but VERY SLOW aggregator of interesting stuff. The top articles are from the last several years.

Another top article takes the UNIQUE position that ZIRP is bad. Powell is fighting a one-man battle against a perfectly unified front of idiots. All politicians and all media, left and right, hate savings and real capitalism. Absolutely everyone is pushing HARD for a return to infinite free counterfeit.

A third item opens an alt-history window. Japan is developing wooden space satellites that will burn up completely during re-entry, thus avoiding possible damage from debris striking houses or people. Wood tech has been remarkably advanced for a long time, but the advanced products don’t get much public attention.

If satellites had been wooden from the start, the usual image of bristling antennas would have a different meaning….