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I find this author’s bias and huge belief in data in the book to probably be a very big blindside for him, as although there is safety in data, it creates the pitfall of believing that you know everything about everyone based on arbitrary numbers. You don’t know the concentration of your data pool participants being of the same belief set, perhaps the survey you created only appeals to people with a sort of similar belief to the other participants. For instance, the author, when discussing how “people (a very vague term) tend to like the usage of the word ‘you’,” he uses the demographic that purchased his book as proof of such when that is a biased dataset. His book has a demographic of people who all read it for a specific purpose and goal in mind. It's not really raw data if the book is advertised and people, usually with the same vested interest pick it up, and like a vegan writer saying that people are vegetarian based off of the demographic of one’s reader base, it is an incomplete dataset. He has a writing style that is generally found in self-help books (unsurprising considering the topic) and so when most of the reader base has picked up the book with the intention of self-improvement to some degree, it makes it so that they are more likely to highlight sentences that include "you" as it would pique their interest in improving themselves. This is not to say that people aren't driven more by personal endeavors, a lot of people probably are, I just find that his specific EXAMPLE was a bit of a weak example. I am aware that I have my own biases, no one is devoid of having their own biases that cloud their judgment, but I do have to say that I spent a lot of time just reading through this and trying to have a mind open to change (08/24/2024). — Mars ᓚᘏᗢ |
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