I also think you’re ignoring self-selection effects among complainers. A lot fewer people are qualified to complain about performance and gas mileage, but everyone gets annoyed by cupholders. This is probably related to why a sex scandal is much more devastating to a politician than decades of shitty policy choices.
I also think you’re ignoring self-selection effects among complainers. A lot fewer people are qualified to complain about performance and gas mileage, but everyone gets annoyed by cupholders. This is probably related to why a sex scandal is much more devastating to a politician than decades of shitty policy choices.
I agree, and I think I found a Wikipedia article which supports your claim and references the effect you are referring to, so I’ll link that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law_of_triviality