{"id":288,"date":"2010-02-20T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-02-20T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2010-02-21T00:12:15","slug":"research-disputes-tipping-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/research-disputes-tipping-point\/","title":{"rendered":"Research disputes Tipping Point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watts believes this is because a trend&#8217;s success depends not on the person who starts it, but on how susceptible the society is overall to the trend&#8211;not how persuasive the early adopter is, but whether everyone else is easily persuaded. And in fact, when Watts tweaked his model to increase everyone&#8217;s odds of being infected, the number of trends skyrocketed.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/magazine\/122\/is-the-tipping-point-toast.html?page=0,2\">Is the Tipping Point Toast? &#8212; Duncan Watts &#8212; Trendsetting  Page 3  Fast Company<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watts believes this is because a trend&#8217;s success depends not on the person who starts it, but on how susceptible the society is overall to the trend&#8211;not how persuasive the early adopter is, but whether everyone else is easily persuaded. And in fact, when Watts tweaked his model to increase everyone&#8217;s odds of being infected, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/research-disputes-tipping-point\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Research disputes Tipping Point<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}