On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 11:10 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jesse Keating wrote: >> That's another problem with the poll. "Adventurous" means different >> things to different people, so you can't assume that everybody is >> responding to the same thing. > > "Adventurous" has quite an implication of breakage. A milder term would > probably have given an even HIGHER percentage for "adventurous" updates. Actually adventurous is a positive word association like freedom. People associate it overwhelmingly with good things versus downsides. It is why everyone from armies to travel organizations use it in recruitment posters. It is a standard Marketing 101 catch phrase to make people think highly of something. -- Stephen J Smoogen. “The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance.” Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "We have a strategic plan. It's called doing things."" — Herb Kelleher, founder Southwest Airlines -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
