Gathering statistics in the sense of knowing your customers, not for the site to influence the customers, but for the customers to influence the site. Reading between the lines with basic data can help define a target audience and figure out what they would like to see. That's what I mean to say.
That's the trick to it, not to making the info "feel" like too much by linking it to a relatively "neutral" sounding word (correct definition aside). But that's going into marketing and most people don't really look at those details in that sense unless they've studied the subject or have an interest in it from a business perspective, which is quite different from the social perspective or even a languages perspective. But you know, that's the whole point to "gather data". Sounds kind of mean, but it's not really, since it all goes into trying to create a good customer experience. Who knows, really? Maybe they're just trying to be nice and don't have a trained business person behind the database doing this stuff. XD Pardon my geekiness, I read too far between the lines at times.
I've always though of the mental things as choices in the sense that people can change their mind though not their DNA (plastic surgery aside). It's like a sort of mostly "permanent" choice that will probably remain the same for a long time, often a lifetime, but that had to be initially chosen at some point in time, though that point might not be clear. I tend to associate attraction with personal taste in a sense.
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Date: 2011-12-30 03:19 am (UTC)That's the trick to it, not to making the info "feel" like too much by linking it to a relatively "neutral" sounding word (correct definition aside). But that's going into marketing and most people don't really look at those details in that sense unless they've studied the subject or have an interest in it from a business perspective, which is quite different from the social perspective or even a languages perspective. But you know, that's the whole point to "gather data". Sounds kind of mean, but it's not really, since it all goes into trying to create a good customer experience. Who knows, really? Maybe they're just trying to be nice and don't have a trained business person behind the database doing this stuff. XD Pardon my geekiness, I read too far between the lines at times.
I've always though of the mental things as choices in the sense that people can change their mind though not their DNA (plastic surgery aside). It's like a sort of mostly "permanent" choice that will probably remain the same for a long time, often a lifetime, but that had to be initially chosen at some point in time, though that point might not be clear. I tend to associate attraction with personal taste in a sense.