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December 12, 2004

A Different Rule of Three

Recently ran across a very cool new site. It's called 43 Things from Robot Co-op. It is a sort of communal, massively multiplayer, wish list of all the hopes and dreams of its visitor/members. You enter yours and see how they match with others. The size of type grows with the popularity of the wish.

Interesting to see the common themes. In our book we are always harping on the rule of three (keep it simple - three buckets only of benefits, features, proof - otherwise people won't remember). Well, the same seems to apply to people's desires. 43 Thing co-creator Erik Benson notes that across the thousands of entries, there are three highly common themes:

1. be happy,
2. live simply, and
3. get laid

Interesting to see how yours match up (and given the last one it would also be interesting to know more about the participant population - e.g. their gender and how old/married/single they are).

Via Paul Kedrowsky

Posted by johnza at December 12, 2004 07:45 AM

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I am tempted to believe that a large subset of the people wishing for #3 are also wishing for #1. I think that for them, wish #1 will never be acheived without the fullfilling of #3. It would be interesting to see what would happen if we had a nationwide repeat of "The Summer of Love". Let's assume that in the fall of that year, wish #3 drops substantially in the list. Does wish #1 also see a drop that correlates in some manner?

Posted by: spiez [TypeKey Profile Page] at December 15, 2004 09:32 AM

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