The methods of big data

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Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

Today I logged in anonymously on a library, created an anonymous email account and created a blog, all without attaching my name, face or otherwise to this.

The interesting part began when I had to pass a captcha;
The patterns of thought are essentially researched.

I was asked to look at various pictures and identify pictures with roads, then later ones with cars. In one go.

What I observed was that in every picture on the one with roads there were at least roadsigns; meaning indirectly even if not visible there were roads.

The task was to “Identify pictures with roads”, not “Pictures with roads on them”.

The next part of the sequence was identifying pictures with cars. Here there were carports and roadsigns, however the certainty of there being cars is not absolute.

The danger of this test and attempt at observation is of course that people are essentially trained to think that of only what they can immediately see, not what is sorrounding the picture, thereby enforcing a weak line of thinking.

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