Possibly the best new name in economic journalism. Itâs an e-journal of high-quality research for âunsurprisingâ findings. - source and more info:
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This is beautiful. It gives me an idea for a news network: âBoring Newsâ. It records all the uneventful events of the day. At first, I was going to say âone hour per dayâ, but a 24 hour ânewsâ cycle would be really entertaining. âA frog hoppedâ. âA plane reached its destinationâ.
This is so wonderful because it builds different expectations in people. If people arenât inundated with stories about, say, making a multi-billion dollar exit, or terrorist attacks, or especially single assaults, individual incidents, they wonât come to expect them as much. Iâve personally been drowned in stories of mass shootings, airport attack attempts, people being shot, stabbed, or otherwise attacked, and itâs come to raise my expectations of being a victim of such an incident. Likewise, if youâre exposed to a ton of stories about million dollar acquisitions or IPOs, or stories about wild scientific outliers, youâre more likely to believe theyâre commonplace, when in fact theyâre rarities compared to everyday life. I wonder what Boring News would do to people? How would it change us?