When you’re looking for banal information like the location of the closest Starbucks, Google is highly reliable. But not when you start asking more complex questions.
Even google may fail to provide correct information about complex topics. On the other hand you'll never be disappointed if you search for very basic stuff like searching a meaning of a word or finding a store neraby your location.
It also doesn’t often pick up voices in the margins, where people are writing in small fields that are not represented by powerful journals or publishing houses.
The algorithm usually doesn't show articles written from writers which may not be very well known and prioritizes writers which may be deemed more trustworthy and are well known.
A month later, the streets of Mandalay, Myanmar, are filling with people. A mob is forming around a tea shop owned by a Muslim man. A Facebook post accusing the shop owner of raping a Buddhist employee was shared by a local ultranationalist monk named Wirathu. Rioters begin torching cars and destroying shops. Eventually the President’s Office has to block access to Facebook in an effort to curb the violence.
This shows that Facebook is a medium which people can use to spread news but it also comes with its own disadvantages as every now and then you'll see fake news getting spread and people believing it mindlessly.
By 1970, Seaside was the most populous city on the Monterey Peninsula and the second largest in the county after Monterey. Between 1960 and 1970 the population of Seaside had more than doubled to 35,940, as did the black population which stood at 7,341 or about 20 percent of all city residents. A decade later, the changes were even greater. The black population in 1980 stood at 29.3 percent, about 13,000 while the white population decreased to 47 percent.
The black population kept increasing and slowly started coming in majority with the passing time.
When it happens: Have you ever felt proud of yourself for bringing lunch from home all week and then gone out for expensive meals over the weekend? What about working out in the morning only to binge on late-night snacks?The progress bias explains our tendency to overestimate the effects of our positive or goal-supportive actions (like exercising) and underestimate the effects of negative actions (like eating poorly), which can lead to making poor choices as we think we’re in a better position than we are.
I understood that eating home made food during the weekdays and going out to eat on weekends doesn't benefit you much. As the author said It's like working out in the morning and binge on late-night snacks, sure it may save some money but in longer run it doesn't benefits you much.