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Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com 📝 ft.com/jbm
👤 Joined on 06 July 2023
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@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social → @jburnmurdoch.ft.comThought this @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece was really good, and it actually confounds some of my priors…
Show Post@jburnmurdoch.ft.com Just read your Data Points column in this weekend’s paper. Fascinating. Thank you. Off to get my three kids some more (paperback) books to keep them reading…
Show PostI find John’s theory that a lot of this is down to the effort and risk of “putting yourself out there” pretty compelling. But I wonder if there might be a dynamic of “if I’m going out, I want to guarantee it will be good, so I will pay more to make sure it”?
Show PostInteresting. Consistent with this, I suspect that a lot of what’s happening is about risk / pain avoidance making connection with other separate people costly combining with the effectiveness of the platform’s efforts to keep us scrolling. As an aside, is reading an e-book cognitively ‘reading‘?
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