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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 2 Jul 2019
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    I often google for the wikipedia entry on things even when I know other sources are better, because I've become very efficient at parsing wikipedia pages and extracting what I want to know. Anyone else do this? Is there a UX word for this? It's a kind of imprinting or something

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      2. Pieratt‏ @pieratt 2 Jul 2019
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        Similar to the efficiencies pulled from structured data : structured UX?

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      3. Pieratt‏ @pieratt 2 Jul 2019
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        Still waiting for someone to do this for brands/shopping

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      2. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 2 Jul 2019
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        I do it too. The benefit of familiar format outweighs the cost (and you can always use that info to subsequently influence the rest of the search). Feels like there’s a musical instrument analogy. Can be useful to go to “home base” even if it’s not the best instrument for the job

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      3. visa is working on his ebook‏ @visakanv 2 Jul 2019
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        Probably also a language analogy? Or a math analogy? Translating something into a familiar domain for convenience. Doing algebra via geometry, etc

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      2. Science Banana‏ @literalbanana 2 Jul 2019
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        something deep here about the nature of form (nonfiction & maybe other) - a shared structure (with varying content) that audience has optimized to extract information from

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      3. Paul Hundred, GED‏ @paul_hundred 2 Jul 2019
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        We’re pretty well adapted to figuring how to extract or judge information from the characters in our life.

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      1. June "Wakalix",  💎‏ @TWakalix 2 Jul 2019
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        Standard interfaces?

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      1. Vegard Stikbakke‏ @vegardstikbakke 2 Jul 2019
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        Symmetry?

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      1. Josh Whitkin‏ @joshwhitkin 2 Jul 2019
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        I do this too, because: comparatively clear and unbiased content, quickest disambiguation, familiar ui, loads fast, no distracting ads. Plus a small thing: I feel good about paying, and I remember paying them, unlike myriad Atlantic or guardian or nyt or wired or whatever.

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      1. OTIS!‏ @otisfunkmeyer 2 Jul 2019
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        how bout this? i relate so i googled "using a suboptimal tool due to familiarity" which led here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere-exposure_effect …

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