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Google News Badges? Really?
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kingcoyote
United States546 Posts
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Vazze
Sweden279 Posts
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DamageControL
United States4222 Posts
edit: I'll pay someone to level all of mine to ultimate so I can look like I read the news on google. | ||
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Jugan
United States1566 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:20 Vazze wrote: Damn, now I must start farming news articles to reach world first Ultimate badge. Dude, I'll totally trade you my political reading badge for your scientific studies reading badge. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
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kingcoyote
United States546 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:24 Hawk wrote: pffft, if it suckers dumb kids into paying attention to relevant shit i am all for it I guess that's a good point. But will they even read the articles, or just click the links? News companies already try to create the most shocking, misleading headlines possible to lure in readers. This might just make it worse. | ||
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Laerties
United States361 Posts
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OpticalShot
Canada6330 Posts
Yesh I want to collect my spent-1000-hours-on-google-reading-junk-badges!! | ||
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kingcoyote
United States546 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:26 Laerties wrote: That is pretty retarded. I don't want fake achievements for doing real things. That, and this news badges shit, reminds me of this SMBC: http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2286#comic | ||
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Bibdy
United States3481 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:26 Laerties wrote: That is pretty retarded. I don't want fake achievements for doing real things. Hah. Imagine if we could convert everyone's job into the enjoyment of a video-game? I think they call it Gameification and it's growing. | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:27 OpticalShot wrote: HBD Torte! Yesh I want to collect my spent-1000-hours-on-google-reading-junk-badges!! Thank you. BRB scripting bot to refresh page on various news sites! | ||
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LML
Germany1764 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:35 Torte de Lini wrote: Thank you. BRB scripting bot to refresh page on various news sites! cool, how much to use it, too? | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
I wasn't serious lolol | ||
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:26 visual77 wrote: I guess that's a good point. But will they even read the articles, or just click the links? News companies already try to create the most shocking, misleading headlines possible to lure in readers. This might just make it worse. well it's google doing it and not yahoo which actually generates its own content. Plus if you're clicking for the sake of doing it you're probably not reading headlines =p this will probably just end up as a benign and quickly forgotten thing if I were to take a guess. I really can't see harm coming from it, but i also dont see anyone really caring either | ||
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Essbee
Canada2371 Posts
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:24 Hawk wrote: pffft, if it suckers dumb kids into paying attention to relevant shit i am all for it Reading news is not paying attention to relevant shit. Reminds me of a study about perceptions of railroad safety in the UK a few years ago. People were asked whether they thought railroad safety had been improving, staying the same or getting worse. Those who read newspapers did worse than those who didn't. What's more tabloid readers did better than those who read broadsheets (i.e serious newspapers). + Show Spoiler + This isn't really surprising. The long term trend was towards increased safety and less fatal accidents. These papers focused on a few incidents without looking at the big picture. Those who read these stories tended to think things were getting worse. Looking only at some aspects of an issue can be significantly worse than not looking at all and just taking a random guess. Or guessing based on general knowledge. Yes, news can make you more informed. But only if you read critically. And I don't see how a badge system encourages that. | ||
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mucker
United States1120 Posts
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QuanticHawk
United States32051 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:46 hypercube wrote: Reading news is not paying attention to relevant shit. Reminds me of a study about perceptions of railroad safety in the UK a few years ago. People were asked whether they thought railroad safety had been improving, staying the same or getting worse. Those who read newspapers did worse than those who didn't. What's more tabloid readers did better than those who read broadsheets (i.e serious newspapers). + Show Spoiler + This isn't really surprising. The long term trend was towards increased safety and less fatal accidents. These papers focused on a few incidents without looking at the big picture. Those who read these stories tended to think things were getting worse. Looking only at some aspects of an issue can be significantly worse than not looking at all and just taking a random guess. Or guessing based on general knowledge. Yes, news can make you more informed. But only if you read critically. And I don't see how a badge system encourages that. well news papers tend to report on incidents that happen, so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised that a paper would report on accidents?? that whole acedote seems really pointless, esp without any kind of sourcing | ||
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Torte de Lini
Germany38463 Posts
Secondly, I agree that reading newspapers with a critical eye is good, however you are informed either way. Commercials can also be considered a form of information as well believe it or not. | ||
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HornyHerring
Papua New Guinea1059 Posts
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Keniji
Netherlands2569 Posts
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
On July 16 2011 04:59 Hawk wrote: well news papers tend to report on incidents that happen, so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised that a paper would report on accidents?? that whole acedote seems really pointless, esp without any kind of sourcing Not sure if you think it's pointless in the first place or that it should be sourced. Anyway, I promise to look up the primary source and post it later. I agree that it's not surprising, it's just an example where reading trusted sources of information made people less informed. The study you're mentioning is bias, so I'm not going to touch that. Depends on what you mean by bias. I don't think they were deliberately trying to mislead people. Instead by reporting what was interesting, or "newsworthy" they created an inaccurate perception of reality. Maybe it's an exception, but it's not that rare. To be clear I don't believe reading news will make you less informed. But I suspect the benefits are way overestimated. | ||
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edc
United States666 Posts
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OmniEulogy
Canada6592 Posts
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PassiveAce
United States18076 Posts
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swanized
Canada2480 Posts
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Mirrorthrone
United States8 Posts
If I see someone with an Ultimate badge in politics, I know to ignore them. Google's video about badges: | ||
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LML
Germany1764 Posts
neither was I ;P | ||
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