Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web http://savageminds.org/2009/11/03/savage-minds-around-the-web-45/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: a. http://savageminds.org/2009/11/03/savage-minds-around-the-web-45/comment-page-1/#comment-622535 a. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:39:35 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2875#comment-622535 i'm new to your blog but it sounds to me like you have mischaracterized two of the the articles you link to (on purpose? i can't tell). 1) parul bhandari's piece pretty much comes to the conclusion that online to offline is NOT as love is to arrangement; and 2) (but more egregiously wrong, imo) the study discussed in the article linked to under "the scientists must be crazy" does not by any interpretation come to the conclusion that "that the Internet could lead to greater economic equality in hunter gatherer and peasant societies" - ?? but rather that patterns of wealth inheritance in emergent knowledge-based economies are most similar to those of hunter-gatherer economies (more egalitarian) as opposed to those of agricultural economics (more hierarchical). it sounds like a fascinating thread of research, actually. so - why such glaringly wrong summaries? honest error? i’m new to your blog but it sounds to me like you have mischaracterized two of the the articles you link to (on purpose? i can’t tell). 1) parul bhandari’s piece pretty much comes to the conclusion that online to offline is NOT as love is to arrangement; and 2) (but more egregiously wrong, imo) the study discussed in the article linked to under “the scientists must be crazy” does not by any interpretation come to the conclusion that “that the Internet could lead to greater economic equality in hunter gatherer and peasant societies” – ?? but rather that patterns of wealth inheritance in emergent knowledge-based economies are most similar to those of hunter-gatherer economies (more egalitarian) as opposed to those of agricultural economics (more hierarchical). it sounds like a fascinating thread of research, actually.

so – why such glaringly wrong summaries? honest error?

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