Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Mar 2008 10:18 UTC, submitted by marc anton
"There are many tribes in the tech world: TiVo lovers, Blackberry addicts, Palm Treo fanatics, and people who exhibit unhealthy affection for their Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners. But there is no bigger tribe, and none more zealous, than fans of Apple, who are infamous for their sensitivity to slams, real or imagined, against the beloved company. "It's funny - even if I write a generally positive piece about Apple, I still get more complaints from Apple partisans" than from opponents, Mossberg says. He has even coined a term for the effect. "I call it the Doctrine of Insufficient Adulation."
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2005-07-20
"How can you compare a so-called conflict with IT? I'm not sure I see the logical connection."
Good thing nobody was doing that, isn't it? The comparison was between two groups of people who share a common disorder: malignant narcissism (wherein their sense of self is replaced by an idea. I'm sure there's a term for that, if anyone cares to point me to it). IT didn't really come up in it.
"How we perceive it and use it is entirely up to the individual ape behind the keyboard."
...that's sort of the whole point of his article: How we relate to technology, and how that parallels with how we relate to other ideas.
The logical connection is, of course, that a psychological cause for one behavior is usually connected to other stupid behaviors as well... Because our society springs from our psychological quirks, most things (be they religion, war, politics, or any other fanatical zeal) are connected in that they have the same root cause (which is simply applied in a different direction).
This expands into other areas too, such as, say, seeing a topic on Mac users and assuming it's about IT and technology rather than people(i.e. seeing what you want to see, rather than reality). There's a natural tendency to assume that things posted to an IT site will be about technology rather than human interaction and psychology. As a result of that some people don't pick up on the change of topic when it happens. I would wager that such people frequently misunderstand other topics of discussion. The fact that it happens in the IT realm does not limit it to area?
How did you miss it, exactly?
"I avoid studies. Especially those studies which may be biased."
Just an FYI... all studies are biased. If there was no bias, the study would not have been done to begin with.