Is there a more comprehensive resource anywhere on picking up the right side of the bell curve?
edited to add: as long as I’m asking how to pull the long tail, so to speak, how ’bout resources considering the culturally Russian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, etc.?
How much do you actually communicate with people who are around the middle of the bell curve? In places like LW, people often have a very skewed perspective about the bottom three quartiles.
It’s skewed in several ways, each of which would be a complex topic in its own right. In this particular context, I have the impression that nazgulnarsil’s idea of what the middle of the distribution looks like would correspond more exactly to somewhat higher percentiles.
PUA stuff targets the middle of the bell curve. Of course it looks silly to intelligent people.
This. Pickup at the right of the bell curve looks a bit different. It involves more puns, for instance.
Pickup at the right end of the bell curve looks like this:
“If I were to ask you out, would your answer to that question be the same as the answer to this one?”
(Disclaimer: I didn’t make it up. I saw it somewhere else on this site, long time ago.)
looks silly to me. ;)
Smullyan invented this “coercive logic” in “The Riddle of Scheherazade”.
Pretty sure this is much, much older than that.
And you know you’ve got a winner when the pickup-ee grins and answers with no hesitation, “Maybe.”
I’d guess that this is just indicative that being at the right end of the bell curve works on those who are also at the right end of the bell curve.
FYI—puns and wit work as a pick-up line… only if they’re your puns and wit… not if you’re just parroting somebody else’s idea of what “should work”.
Is there a more comprehensive resource anywhere on picking up the right side of the bell curve?
edited to add: as long as I’m asking how to pull the long tail, so to speak, how ’bout resources considering the culturally Russian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, etc.?
How much do you actually communicate with people who are around the middle of the bell curve? In places like LW, people often have a very skewed perspective about the bottom three quartiles.
My experience is that intelligent people overestimate the abilities of people around the middle.
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/07/stupider-than-you-realize.html
Skewed which way?
It’s skewed in several ways, each of which would be a complex topic in its own right. In this particular context, I have the impression that nazgulnarsil’s idea of what the middle of the distribution looks like would correspond more exactly to somewhat higher percentiles.