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Kathy Sierra：你的应用让我变胖了
Kathy Sierra: Your app makes me fat
2013 — 2016，它一次次回到首页
黑点是上首页（≥ 50 分）的那次投稿，空心点是没冲上去的投稿，点越大分数越高。
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UX 专家 Kathy Sierra 复出后的博文，提出应用和网站会消耗用户有限的认知资源与意志力——那些精心设计来吸引用户投入注意力的产品，实际上是在'让用户变胖'。她呼吁开发者善待用户，减少不必要的认知负担。
为什么经久不衰：它把'用户注意力是稀缺资源'这一理念讲得生动有力，即使其引用的心理学理论后来受到质疑，'别浪费用户认知资源'的设计原则至今仍然成立。
HN 评论精选
解释了作者停笔多年的背景：网络骚扰，以及读者对她复出的欣慰。
很多人说'很高兴看到 Kathy 重新写博客'，是因为她在 2007 年因遭受严重网络骚扰而停笔。作为她旧博客《Creating Passionate Users》的老读者，我很高兴她回来了——与其说是因为这篇文章有什么新意，不如说这说明她的伤疤已经愈合得差不多了。
tobtoh查看英文原文
For those people wondering why so many comments here are saying 'Glad to see Kathy blogging again', it's because she stopped blogging in 2007 after getting severely harassed online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathy_Sierra#Harassment As someone who followed her previous blog 'Creating Passionate Users', I'm really glad she's back writing publicly - not so much for this particular post (which wasn't anything novel), but more that it means her scars have healed enough. Hope to see more posts from her soon!
质疑'意志力资源池'理论不可证伪，批评其被包装成科学。
'意志力和认知加工来自同一资源池'这类心理学说法基本不可证伪。大脑真的有资源池吗？在神经层面如何区分意志力和认知加工？比如实验后人们选蛋糕，也可以解释为压力上升后的情绪性进食或自我奖励。心理学有价值，但把不可证伪的东西包装成科学很让人恼火。
foobarbazqux查看英文原文
> Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources. Like many things in psychology, this is basically unfalsifiable. Our brains have pools of resources? How do you even differentiate between willpower and cognitive processing at a neurological level? It's one model, but there are other equally valid but also unfalsifiable explanations. What about anxiety goes up after working on a hard problem (memorizing a 7-digit number, apparently) - maybe you can test this by measuring cortisol levels - and so you choose the (stereotypically) more satisfying and rewarding dessert (cake) as a form of emotional eating and also, you know, rewarding yourself for a job well done? I mean, it's basically just saying, "Use your brain, and your brain will get tired. Both solving problems and doing something you don't want to do count as using your brain." Sure, but I hardly need an experiment to tell me that. Also, what about people who perform better under stress? Since it requires willpower to work hard and meet a deadline, and since the quality of your cognitive processing also goes up (for an initial period), doesn't that defeat the "competing for the same pool of resources" claim? Psychology is great and a lot of the unfalsifiable stuff is valuable but it's irritating when it's dressed up as science.
指出文章依据的自我损耗理论在可重复性危机中受到严重质疑。
这就是'自我损耗'（Ego Depletion）假说。2013 年这篇文章写作时它看起来很可能成立，但到 2016 年，心理学研究的可重复性危机已广为人知，该假说在多项重复实验中失败，其真实性已存在重大疑问。
mrob查看英文原文
"Willpower and cognitive processing draw from the same pool of resources." This is the Ego Depletion hypothesis. When the article was written in 2013 it seemed very likely to be true. In 2016 we're now aware of serious problems in many psychology studies, and while it's not definitely proven false, it's failed to replicate in enough studies that there's major doubt about it being a real effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion#Reproducibility_controversy_and_conflicting_meta_analyses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
即使理论存疑，作者'善待用户、别榨取认知资源'的核心主张依然成立。
自我损耗理论如今确实存疑，但 Sierra 的结论依然有价值：她坦承自己曾精心设计无数项目来'吸食'用户认知资源，用户看似自愿参与，实则是被诱导和诱惑的，她为此道歉，并希望帮助大家更好地照顾用户——不只是在使用产品时，而是之后，因为他们不仅是用户，更是人。
throwanem查看英文原文
It's true that ego depletion has a question mark over it these days. It's also true that Sierra's conclusion has value: > ...I've created interactive marketing games, gamified sites (before it was called that), and dozens of other projects carefully, artfully, scientifically designed to slurp (gulp) cognitive resources for... very little that was "worth it". Did people willingly choose to engage with them? Of course. And by "of course" I mean, not really, no. Not according to psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics research of the past 50 years. They were nudged/seduced/tricked. And I was pretty good at it. I am so very, very sorry. > My goal for Serious Pony is to help all of us take better care of our users. Not just while they are interacting with our app, site, product, but after. Not just because they are our users, but because they are people. ...nah, it'll never catch on. Where's the value prop here?
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