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Thanks for making my argumentThanks for making my argumentPosted Mar 7, 2013 12:23 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341)In reply to: Thanks for making my argument by paulj Parent article: Canonical reveals plans to launch Mir display server (The H)
Oh, and these effects occur even with full information. In the real-world, an obvious/frequent source of affiliation bias, is of having more complete or better information about your affiliations than of others.
Or as other commentators put it, communication issues. :)
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Thanks for making my argument Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:30 UTC (Thu) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]
It's rather hard to be informed about what Canonical is doing when they do it behind closed doors. And that's actually what all this is about: the fact that Canonical utterly misses the point in Open Source Software: collaboration instead of competition.
Sources of bias Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:41 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] In-group bias is another well-researched source of bias, that probably can be traced back all the way to primate groups. This is important not because it is more primitive, on the contrary: it is much more subconscious and entrenched than other, more cultural (you could say "human") biases. We want our group / tribe / company to thrive not because we will be better off, but because we are the best.
Sources of bias Posted Mar 7, 2013 12:49 UTC (Thu) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]
Yeah, I must have put it clumsily. My point was that lack of information is one obvious source of bias. But even when we have full information, we *still* have a definite tendency to be biased toward group members - even if subconsciously, as per your link.
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