SIGIA-L Mail Archives: [Sigia-l] For sale: "Best Buys"
[Sigia-l] For sale: "Best Buys"
A few years ago there was here a raging thread on the notion of "Best
Bets/Best Buys" as being, uhm, best practice for 'guiding' users into
meaningful results. Everybody was doin' it and how harmful could it possibly
be?
I said then and I still think today "Best Bets" is normative and, in many
situations, plain evil.
A new study at Columbia sheds some light on how it influences choices:
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/15/magazine/15wwlnidealab.t.html>
I'm hoping that this is no longer so counterintuitive for some people as it
was then.
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