Michael Erard - Blog

« Ashes | Main | Tenure as Violence... »

What People Hate

It's not Sher or even Ross. It's Ken Vincent that is the real problem. That guy can't finish a sentence. "The time is...uh 9: uh.... 18 and the uh... weather conditions for uh....the Seattle area are... going to be...uh cloudy..."

Jeeezus.

From a Seattleist discussion about a departing public radio announcer. Out of 9 comments, one is positive; the rest are negative. Of those 8, 2 are on delivery, 3 are on content (the rest are indeterminate). But this more or less matches the finding by Nicholas Christenfeld (which is in the conclusion of Um...) that people, when left to their own devices, will attend to style or content in more or less equal amounts...and that they attend to style more frequently when the content doesn't captivate (or disgust) them. If the comedians in "The Aristocrats" screw up you don't notice it. Or, ordinary folks don't. (I did.)

About

This page contains a single entry from the blog posted on March 30, 2007 3:52 PM.

The previous post in this blog was Ashes.

The next post in this blog is Tenure as Violence....

Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.

Powered by
Movable Type 3.31