Re:Man Posing as Delivery Person Hides Resumes in a Box of D...
by dredmorbius on Sunday October 09, 2016 @12:44AM
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Economics of signalling and signalling costs.
Someone willing to try this is clearly highly motivated in their job search. Which is one of several axis of qualifications you'd wan to consider. Depending on the position sought (I've not RTFAd), the gumption could be a positive indicator for, say, marketing or leadership (charisma, initiative, risk-tolerance, confidence) though quite likely flat or negative for programming / knowledge-work (humility can matter a lot there).
The economics of information, signalling, signalling costs, proxies for information, quality assessment, etc., are a fascinating and IMO under-studied area. In another tab I'm going through the American Economic Association's annual Papers & Presentations issues looking for topics covered. There are a few on information (early 1970s) that I've found yet. But overall, horribly broken.
It's a bit like the Xerox-generation effect -- if you take an image and photocopy it repeatedly, you'll get an increasingly high-contrast image (a similar effect comes from playing with contrast settings in a photo editor such as the GIMP). But what's lost is the subtlty and nuance. For images which present well in high-contrast (say, the Eiffel Tower against the sky), this isn't terrible. Monet's Rouen Cathedral, Facade (Morning effect) not so much.
The children's game of "telephone" (in which a message is passed by voice from person to person around a circle) is similar.
I'm starting to wonder what examples there are of error-correcting high-quality, high-relevance information transmission systems within biology and elsewhere.
Someone willing to try this is clearly highly motivated in their job search. Which is one of several axis of qualifications you'd wan to consider. Depending on the position sought (I've not RTFAd), the gumption could be a positive indicator for, say, marketing or leadership (charisma, initiative, risk-tolerance, confidence) though quite likely flat or negative for programming / knowledge-work (humility can matter a lot there).
The economics of information, signalling, signalling costs, proxies for information, quality assessment, etc., are a fascinating and IMO under-studied area. In another tab I'm going through the American Economic Association's annual Papers & Presentations issues looking for topics covered. There are a few on information (early 1970s) that I've found yet. But overall, horribly broken.
It's a bit like the Xerox-generation effect -- if you take an image and photocopy it repeatedly, you'll get an increasingly high-contrast image (a similar effect comes from playing with contrast settings in a photo editor such as the GIMP). But what's lost is the subtlty and nuance. For images which present well in high-contrast (say, the Eiffel Tower against the sky), this isn't terrible. Monet's Rouen Cathedral, Facade (Morning effect) not so much.
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Claude_Monet_-_Rou...
The children's game of "telephone" (in which a message is passed by voice from person to person around a circle) is similar.
I'm starting to wonder what examples there are of error-correcting high-quality, high-relevance information transmission systems within biology and elsewhere.