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Physicists Find Users Uninterested After 36 Hours

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the yawn-show-me-something-new dept.

SuperGrads writes "Statistical physicists working in the US and Hungary have found that the number of people reading a particular news story on the web decreases with time by a power law rather than exponentially as was previously thought. The finding has implications for the study of information flow in social networks, marketing and web design."

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  1. In related news by lecithin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Users Find Physicists Uninteresting After 3.6 seconds.

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    1. Re:In related news by The_Wilschon · · Score: 4, Funny

      Well, I Am A Physicist, and I certainly find YOU uninteresting!

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  2. Old news by Percent+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we still talking about this?

  3. It's appropriate this time by A+beautiful+mind · · Score: 1, Funny
    Nothing for you to see here. Please move along.
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  4. However ... by blowdart · · Score: 5, Funny

    The story will get posted again on slashdot 37 hours later.

  5. Re:First post by Luctius · · Score: 5, Funny

    Please reread your own sig.

  6. Impulse function by courtarro · · Score: 3, Funny

    Users losing interest in this particular news story follow an impulse function.

    1. Re:Impulse function by m0nstr42 · · Score: 3, Funny

      This is "interesting"? It should just be "funny"!

      I mean, EVERYONE knows what an impulse function is, right?

      Right?

      It's so very lonely here.

      P.S. It's not really a function. It's a distribution, measure, functional, possibly some other things, but not a function.

      Yes, very lonely.

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  7. Another massive triumph for statistical physicists by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, nobody cares about this sort of thing, and these so-called "statistical physicists" would all be cleaning gutters for a living right now.. except the guy from HR is too terrified to go downstairs and fire them. The last time he tried, they somehow irrevocably proved to him that not only was it statistically impossible that he had arrived to give them their pink slips, but they also proved his trousers, eyebrows, and cat out of existence with nothing more than a slide rule and a whiteboard.

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  8. Re:Linked by truthsearch · · Score: 2, Funny

    I guess you disagree with the author. Otherwise you would have provided a link...

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  9. Heh. by wfberg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good luck in explaining the spike in traffic 3 full days after the article was posted.

    Suckers!

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  10. ISR... by MachDelta · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let me guess. You're from Soviet Russia, yes?

  11. Re:Who Knew?!! by refriedchicken · · Score: 3, Funny
    "36 Hours is the exact age of a story before it drops from the bottom of slashdot's Main page."

    And is recycled back to the the top.

  12. We Just Killed Their Theory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can see these physicists really scratching their heads when the article gets slashdotted 72 hours after the published date (July 7).

  13. Duh. by StikyPad · · Score: 3, Funny

    Current tags: boring, slownewsday, yawn, uninteresting and duh.

    Put another way: Slashdot -- Now with 20% real nerds!

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