Monday, September 16, 2013
Manipulation of Information Could Make an Innocent Man Confess...
When I stumbled across this article I was a little shocked that there would actually be a study like this one. This link, takes you to a recent study about the human behavior and how it is "93 percent predictable". I found this article's claim to be outstanding. How would you predict actions by location alone like they say in the article? Based on 100,000 anonymous cell-phone users of the 7.1 billion people on Earth it seems to be as if they concluded that everyone has a regular and routine in which they make the same choices every time. The sampling size alone pokes holes into the reliability of this information. If you know anything about anyone these days, it just seems to be that they have to be on a schedule or routine to have a normal functioning life. In no way does being in the same place often mean that you have to make the same choices every day. People could make tons of different choices at home or even in their work place. Just suppose that someone works at home and deals in many different businesses or trades. Couldn't they make hundreds of different impossible-to-predict choices? I think that they have really messed this title up. They could change the name to human routine is 93 percent predictable but to go as far as to say the whole human behavior is that well predicted is too much of a reach.
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