Fine, since you seem to still have issues. Read it as needs not met vs otherwise. I don’t see the need to argue over something that has absolutely nothing to do with what I was talking about.
What sources? I have posted sources in a recent post if you would scroll up. The vonvept of people most likely to review or comment about a negative experience is not solely about employee reviews. You need to understand that there are concepts that can be applied to a vast range of subjects.
It does have to do with what you’re talking about though. It seems the only reason you see it as irrelevant is because you believe so firmly that negatives are remembered far more than anything else.
Ok, I see you posted some in response to somebody else. Let’s see, source one:
The researchers found that there was “relatively more positive manipulation than negative manipulation, even though the order of magnitude of the two is similar.” The big takeaway is that the system is being manipulated with fake positive and fake negative reviews—and that’s all negative for consumers who are using them to try and make smart choices.
Ok, so this is just about fake reviews and even says that positive manipulation happens more than negative manipulation.
Second source: Talks entirely about customers. Yes, it references a bias to remember negative more than positive, but it doesn’t talk about employees and the resistance they would face compared to a customer. For instance (as I have stated) an employee might be reluctant to say something negative, for fear of it coming back to them. A customer generally has no such reason to fear repercussions.
Third source:
Take the work of Teresa M. Amabile, a professor of business administration and director of research at the Harvard Business School. She asked 238 professionals working on 26 different creative projects from different companies and industries to fill out confidential daily diaries over a number of months. The participants were asked to answer questions based on a numeric scale and briefly describe one thing that stood out that day.
“We found that of all the events that could make for a great day at work, the most important was making progress on meaningful work — even a small step forward,” said Professor Amabile, a co-author of “The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement and Creativity at Work” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011). “A setback, on the other hand, meant the employee felt blocked in some way from making such progress. Setbacks stood out on the worst days at work.”
After analyzing some 12,000 diary entries, Professor Amabile said she found that the negative effect of a setback at work on happiness was more than twice as strong as the positive effect of an event that signaled progress. And the power of a setback to increase frustration is over three times as strong as the power of progress to decrease frustration.
As Professor Baumeister noted in his study, “Many good events can overcome the psychological effects of a bad one.” In fact, the authors quote a ratio of five goods for every one bad.
This looks to be the closest to what we’re talking about, in relevance. Unfortunately, it still doesn’t mean much. It says nothing about how likely employees are to report bad events (beyond a confidential journal), if they perceive there may be consequences.
It indicates that conceptually, there is some imbalance, but that if enough positive happens to a particular person, it can outweigh the bad. So I’ll give you that you’re right about the general concept, but there is no reason to believe that you are right about how it applies to the current situation.
You need to understand that you can’t just apply concepts to a wide range of subjects wily nilly, without taking into account the quirks of that particular environment.
Focus on the concepts and not the examples please. You’re not going to find a source that specifically addresses reviews on company review websites.
Why bother anymore with this? she/he is obviously a fan boy and thinks everything is perfect and doesn’t need changes.
HoT forever, peace
And we’re back to insults. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything. Thanks. See ad hominem.
In what way am I insulting you? by calling you fanboy? and since when is that an insult? or should I call you fangirl?
It’s usually used an an insult or to discredit the character of someone which in most cases has nothing to do with their argument.
It is more like this : A person who is completely loyal to a game or company reguardless of if they suck or not.
So are you? look at all the replies you wrote
I genuinely disagree with you. I’m not blindly siding with Anet. Once again, someone’s character does not have anything to do with their argument.
What, exactly, is it that you disagree with?
That the reviews are real? That there are issues employees have with their work environment? That the site is a very helpful tool in terms of future employers, and also as a peek into something we, as mere customers, are not included on?
Because I have read everything you have posted in this thread, and I can sum it all up as basically, “We can’t trust that source because: The reviews might be faked, there aren’t enough good reviews for us to get a balanced impression, other companies have bad reviews too so stop picking on Anet.”
All of those points are irrelevant. There is very little likelihood that those reviews are fake, the reviews don’t have to be balanced in order to give us a glimpse into the work environment, and it doesn’t matter what other companies are doing. You DO come off as a fan boy/girl who is just making up any excuse to try and change the subject/defend Anet. It is pretty common knowledge that developers are basically fodder, that it’s hard work, and unappreciated. Nothing stated in those reviews was surprising, neither was anything so outlandish that it should be so discredited and Anet so defended. They’re a company. They aren’t your mother. Of COURSE they do all those things. That’s what ALL companies do.
But that doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do. Or that it isn’t relevant to bring it up.
) I’m willing to ask CS, and I’d like to have opinions here. Maybe one week? Two weeks? What do you think?