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People Feel Loyalty To Computers

Posted by timothy on from the cognitive-dissonance-overcompensation dept.

stoobthealien writes "According to BBC News researchers have discovered that people have loyalty to specific computers because of a tendancy to associate "human attributes to them" - and I thought it was just me that speaks to my PC...."

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  1. Shitty Logic by NineNine · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did this stupid fucking guy ever think that people wanted to use particular computers just because they worked better than others in the lab, or had different programs installed, or weren't infected with viruses, etc? That's a shitty "study" if he jumps to the conclusion that this happens because people anthromorphise computers. All he can conclude from this study is that students using computer lab computers tend to prefer specific ones.