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Re:The abundance of JavaScript libraries by coldtea on Sunday May 10, 2015 @06:55PM (#9521767)
That's an ideology, that thinks that people are all 100% responsible for everything they do, can judge everything consciously, and cannot be manipulated to do stuff by things like advertising or peer pressure.

Sociological studies have proven time and again that this is not the case -- including in people that think that that's impossible for themselves (sort of like the Dunning–Kruger effect).

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Re:The abundance of JavaScript libraries by oldmanjay on Monday May 11, 2015 @11:25AM (#9525432)
manipulation is not force. if you have to redefine words to make your point correct then you didn't make a point.

also, if you're going to assert there are studies that make your conclusion somehow not an ideology, then the actual citations would be good. and they'll have to be fairly interesting to convince me. sociology is full of outright fraud, without even considering all the papers suffering from poor experimental design and rampant conclusion jumping.

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