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RE: Attractor patterns and attractor tokens
You just explained why #introduceyourself posts featuring hot chicks in summerly attire tend to attrack a lot of upvotes from the predominantly male Steem stakeholder population. We are genetically programmed to radar lock-on a specific type of curvy attractor pattern that increases greatly our chances of survival as infants. I'm not even kidding. To be precise, I'm in the superposed state of making a tongue in cheek joke and being dead serious at the same time.
People are attracted to beauty in all it's forms. The female form is beautiful to both males and females, so we should not make the assumption that only males are voting it up unless there are statistics showing that this is the case. On the other side of the coin, you could also claim that males will be voted up by the same mechanism and from what I know about Steemit there is balance between genders on this platform.
Not trying to anthropomorphize beauty or attractiveness, my point is that any pattern can be attractive. For example if you look at stock charts and trading analysis then you'll recognize certain candle patterns signal a buy. People looking at prices will notice certain prices are more attractive and it signals to buy. So by a data pattern in the most abstract sense of the word, it applies literally to any information pattern which attracts attention (which is a scarce resource!).
This partially also explains why when people see huge payouts on Steemit, or touching stories of rags to riches, then many more people join. While I do not have the data to back up what I'm saying, I would say it might be worth it to collect the data using a sort of A/B hypothesis testing to see if more people tend to join Steemit on days when certain stories are trending than others, or during times when there is a very high payout going toward unexpected individuals.
I would like to see the results of the hypothesis test and since the data is available the results can be compiled. Anyone want to crunch the numbers?