{"id":2857,"date":"2006-02-10T12:12:37","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T11:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/02\/10\/the-wisdom-of-crowds"},"modified":"2006-02-10T12:13:11","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T11:13:11","slug":"the-wisdom-of-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/02\/10\/the-wisdom-of-crowds","title":{"rendered":"The Wisdom Of Crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with many things, our appreciation of a given piece of music is largely influenced by what others think of it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn8702&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\">New Scientist reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;participants [in the study] who could see how often a song had been downloaded tended to give higher ratings to songs that had been downloaded often, and were more likely to download those songs themselves. That created a snowball effect, catapulting a few songs to the top of the charts and leaving others languishing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As with many things, our appreciation of a given piece of music is largely influenced by what others think of it, New Scientist reports: &#8230;participants [in the study] who could see how often a song had been downloaded tended to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/02\/10\/the-wisdom-of-crowds\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}