Re: Is it time to drop ChangeLogs?

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:29:48 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 

>> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 10:22:43 -0400
>> 
>> On Fri, 08 Jul 2016 17:06:36 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote: 
>> 
>> >> From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
>> >> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2016 09:27:55 -0400
>> >> 
EZ> All the other projects I
EZ> participate in make it harder, and yet no one complains or thinks they
EZ> are hard on contributors.
>> >> 
>> >> I think there is a confirmation bias there: people tend to believe the
>> >> feedback that confirms their existing views and discount the opposite.
>> 
EZ> I think you underestimate my abilities to avoid from such fallacies.
EZ> It's almost an offense to say that.
>> 
>> I was talking about all the people in those projects that are not
>> complaining.

EZ> That includes me.

I'm hereby explicitly excluding you from my statement :)

Please consider the wider implication, not the personal one.

EZ> Besides, why would people in those other projects suffer from this
EZ> bias, while people here don't?

All people have this bias, see for example:

Nickerson, R. S. (1998). Confirmation bias: A ubiquitous phenomenon in
many guises. Review of General Psychology, 2(2), 175-220.

Ted