Slashdot Mirror
Researchers Study "Harbingers of Failure," Consumers Who Habitually Pick Losers
AmiMoJo writes: Is your favorite TV show always getting cancelled? Did you love Crystal Pepsi? Were you an early adopter of the Zune? If you answered yes to these questions, researchers say you might be a "Harbinger of Failure." In a study published in the Journal of Marketing Research, researchers identified a group of consumers whose preferences can predict products that will fail. “Certain customers systematically purchase new products that prove unsuccessful,” wrote the study authors. “Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail.”
I thought we just called those people Browncoats.
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." - Mark Twain
Anyone have an actual link to the actual paper?
The study is only available on HD DVD.
I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of killer sig, which this margin is too narrow to contain.
My Zune still works fine and I'm typing this on a first gen SurfacePro,.....
So, what new products have you bought recently?
The people who like Timothy's editing of stories on the weekends & the changes that Dice has been bringing to /.
Democracy is a sheep and two wolves deciding what to have for lunch. Freedom is a well armed sheep contesting the issue
You'd think that Slashdot editors would try to include that kind of link in the summary as if there's anything worth reading it's the source itself.
I've been here a few years....I wouldn't think that at all.
I have anti-charisma and whenever I zig, everyone else in the universe zags. If I like something, that means that 99.99% of the rest of the world doesn't. If I hate something, it's probably going to be a big hit.
Mind you, this isn't just contrarianism. I usually don't even pay much attention to what the rest of the world thinks about something. I only find out after-the-fact that every other human being on planet earth else disagrees with me--on EVERYTHING.
Want to win a political campaign? Hire me to campaign for your opponent.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Opps, so I am stupid. What a way to start the week.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
Have gnu, will travel.