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A comment on The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject Creative Ideas (2010) [pdf].

Re:The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject... by Xcelerate on Sunday May 21, 2017 @03:52PM (#14388909)
It would be interesting to scan HN for startups that launched years ago and evaluate the sentiment of the comments. Then, group the startups into "successful" and "unsuccessful" and see how user sentiment at the time of the launch matches up with the startup's level of success. Would there be a trend?
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Re:The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject... by kansface on Sunday May 21, 2017 @04:43PM (#14389156)
My guess is that sentiments are almost always negative on average and do not strongly correlate to outcomes. Its very easy to pick a reason why any startup will fail, and 99/100 times, the average reason is correct.
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Re:The Bias Against Creativity: Why People Desire but Reject... by 5thaccount on Sunday May 21, 2017 @11:41PM (#14390857)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863 is a great example (spoiler alert: DropBox)
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