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Huh this result so far surprises me
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Poll: Based on your anecdotal observations of recently published books, has the rise of blogs increased or decreased the proportion of fluffy books (defined as ‘really should have just been a long blog post’) relative to dense books?
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Yes, because all you need to do to justify the "Increased" option to yourself is to think of one fluffly book published recently, then availability does the rest
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Because people won't care as much about the _proportion_, even though you mentioned it; the question essentially translates to "are there more or less fluffy books now" for someone just taking the poll quickly and an example of a non-fluffy book doesn't change that
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I wasn't convinced myself, but, to play along: does the average person taking your poll see more dense books or fluffy ones around them? (i.e. in the wild, not necessarily something they're reading) Either way, you're going to have anchoring made much easier one way
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