Re: The most SLIMY experiment of all times!: The Microsoft Mojaveexperiment

糊涂人 wrote:
> I cannot stop wanting to crush this experiment...
>
> ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> this is one of the most deceptive experiments of all time!
>
> The mojave experiment was a stupid deceptive experiment to try to
> persuade people that vista was not ****, but actually a good OS! See
> link on the bottom of this post.
>
> Let me set the stage for you to understand why, and give you an example:
>
> A company wants to prove that their faulty model of a car is actually
> good. So they put the car on a runway, and invite families to use the
> car for several days hiding the fact that indeed it was their faulty
> model. After a few days of rides under the sunshine in the runway,
> refueling for free from the special for this purpose gas stations,
> the families were asked what do they think of the driving experience
> with the car. GREAT THEY SAID!
>

Good analogy. The experiment was incredibly deceptive, as it changed
the whole context of the software demo. The testers were everyday
people with not technical knowledge who believed that they were using a
new and experimental version of Windows. This idea that they were
test-driving an unreleased OS probably lowered their expectations a bit.

When these test subjects were seated behind a fresh Vista install,
probably running on top-of-the-line hardware and devoid of any
third-party software, they were amazed to see that this "new and
experimental" Microsoft OS was actually somewhat functional. Their
initial reaction of surprise probably hadn't quite subsided by the time
they were told they were running Vista, hence the positive reception
shown in the commercials.

Either that, or they had it running on a workstation-quality machine
which would have resulted in higher performance than would be typical on
the average consumer-grade PC.


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"Nick Ballard" <> wrote in message
news:49b6ca4c$0$25808$...
> ??? wrote:
>> I cannot stop wanting to crush this experiment...
>>
>> ****!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> this is one of the most deceptive experiments of all time!
>>
>> The mojave experiment was a stupid deceptive experiment to try to
>> persuade people that vista was not ****, but actually a good OS! See link
>> on the bottom of this post.
>>
>> Let me set the stage for you to understand why, and give you an example:
>>
>> A company wants to prove that their faulty model of a car is actually
>> good. So they put the car on a runway, and invite families to use the car
>> for several days hiding the fact that indeed it was their faulty model.
>> After a few days of rides under the sunshine in the runway, refueling for
>> free from the special for this purpose gas stations,
>> the families were asked what do they think of the driving experience with
>> the car. GREAT THEY SAID!
>>
>

> Good analogy.

It's a idiotic analogy but keep on slurping the nym shifting freetard.


> The testers were everyday people with not technical knowledge

Prove that these people have no technical knowledge. Unless you have their
resume and background information you know absolutely nothing about these
people.


> who believed that they were using a new and ...

How in the the world would you know what these people believed or didn't
believe. Unless you were there and talked to the people you have absolutely
ZERO idea of who these people are and what they believe.

After takin' a swig o' grog, Nick Ballard belched out
this bit o' wisdom:

> Good analogy. The experiment was incredibly deceptive, as it changed
> the whole context of the software demo. The testers were everyday
> people with not technical knowledge who believed that they were using a
> new and experimental version of Windows. This idea that they were
> test-driving an unreleased OS probably lowered their expectations a bit.
>
> When these test subjects were seated behind a fresh Vista install,
> probably running on top-of-the-line hardware and devoid of any
> third-party software, they were amazed to see that this "new and
> experimental" Microsoft OS was actually somewhat functional. Their
> initial reaction of surprise probably hadn't quite subsided by the time
> they were told they were running Vista, hence the positive reception
> shown in the commercials.
>
> Either that, or they had it running on a workstation-quality machine
> which would have resulted in higher performance than would be typical on
> the average consumer-grade PC.

It's an age-old trick, pulled by developers since developing existed:
the rigged, scripted, and foolproof demo.

--
I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting:
a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower