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Could be an example of the Hawthorne effect - observing any behavior increases performance in that behavior: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect.

Also, it's amazing the kind of site HN will upvote if it confirms their priors. This site is the most spammy looking thing, and it does not link to the original study like it claims (both links lead to a totally separate article).

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Do.. you not know what Boing Boing is? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boing_Boing

Boing Boing definitely has an issue with looking, and frankly, acting like blogspam these days. Still some interesting original content, but the site design is pretty garish, and it's not always clear what is or isn't an advertisement.

I know its a three paragraph article with two broken links, on a page with 10 ads, and a spammy looking zoomed in photo of Mark Zuckerberg.

You take things at face value without pretense. Please have many offspring, it’s not a very common trait.

If facebook as it is today was presented to people today for the first time, they also may have come to the same conclusion.

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