{"id":1055,"date":"2007-01-23T19:21:02","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T19:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/23\/journal-of-unsurprising-psycho\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T19:21:02","slug":"journal-of-unsurprising-psycho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/23\/journal-of-unsurprising-psycho\/","title":{"rendered":"Journal of Unsurprising Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I posted two &#8220;Dorky Poll&#8221; entries, one asking for people to nominate their favorite science textbook in comments, the other asking for their least favorite science textbook. As of 7:15, a bit less than nine hours after the posts went live, the comment totals are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dorky Poll: Least Favorite Textbook: 32 comments<\/li>\n<li>Dorky Poll: Favorite Textbook: 12 comments<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Negative preferences lead positive ones by almost a factor of three.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t surprising, or shouldn&#8217;t be surprising to anyone who knows actual human beings, but it&#8217;s kind of striking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, I posted two &#8220;Dorky Poll&#8221; entries, one asking for people to nominate their favorite science textbook in comments, the other asking for their least favorite science textbook. As of 7:15, a bit less than nine hours after the posts went live, the comment totals are: Dorky Poll: Least Favorite Textbook: 32 comments Dorky&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2007\/01\/23\/journal-of-unsurprising-psycho\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Journal of Unsurprising Psychology<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}