> "a busybody traces a zigzagging route through many often distantly related topics. A hunter, in contrast, searches with sustained focus, moving among a relatively small number of closely related articles. A dancer links together highly disparate topics to try to synthesize new ideas."
Depending on my end goal, I'll do a combination of all three.
i'm a rabbit-holer. follow the chain of interesting links from one article to the next over and over to see where i get to with hardly any backtracking. after about 5-6 links it's pretty random. after about 20 who knows where you'll end up.
Busybody seems an unfortunate name to me, I don’t think it’s a particularly positive label.
I think there’s also a category difference betweeen hunter / busybody and dancer. The first suggest search strategies the second the utility of thst search. How do we know that hunters and busybodies aren’t just failed dancers?
There seems to be a deliberate, implicit value judgement about "busybodies" that would explain the negative connotations:
> Bassett hypothesizes that “in countries that have more structures of oppression or patriarchal forces, there may be a constraining of knowledge production that pushes people more toward this hyperfocus.”
I wonder how the word "busybody" was chosen?
A busybody implies someone who is nosey, the type of person that peeks through their curtains at what the neighbors are doing.
The article says:
"In this lexicon, a busybody traces a zigzagging route through many often distantly related topics."
I wonder what is accurate?
> "a busybody traces a zigzagging route through many often distantly related topics. A hunter, in contrast, searches with sustained focus, moving among a relatively small number of closely related articles. A dancer links together highly disparate topics to try to synthesize new ideas."
Depending on my end goal, I'll do a combination of all three.
i'm a rabbit-holer. follow the chain of interesting links from one article to the next over and over to see where i get to with hardly any backtracking. after about 5-6 links it's pretty random. after about 20 who knows where you'll end up.
Busybody seems an unfortunate name to me, I don’t think it’s a particularly positive label.
I think there’s also a category difference betweeen hunter / busybody and dancer. The first suggest search strategies the second the utility of thst search. How do we know that hunters and busybodies aren’t just failed dancers?
There seems to be a deliberate, implicit value judgement about "busybodies" that would explain the negative connotations:
> Bassett hypothesizes that “in countries that have more structures of oppression or patriarchal forces, there may be a constraining of knowledge production that pushes people more toward this hyperfocus.”
The article describes the "hunters" as more focused, so I am fairly certain that statement refers to the "hunters" instead of the "busybodies".