Once again, acting rationally is bad for signalling. :-(
EDIT: So how exactly are rational people supposed to win here? Perhaps by including prestige in your utility function and calculating how much danger is a reasonable tradeoff. To be extra careful when driving alone or with reasonable people, and relax safety standards with other people; but generally avoid driving with unreasonable people present.
Once again, acting rationally is bad for signalling. :-(
Unless you care about signalling in which case it is overwhelmingly awesome for signalling and you collect an absolute ton of low hanging fruit by making a few google searches.
Such as? There are a hundred different theories about status and signaling but not a lot of useful suggestions or agreement on specifics that I’ve found.
Still, a lot of that has to do with different people’s preferences. If you’ve found a consistent, clear source for good info, I’d be interested though. Also, you’re in the UK: we think you guys look weird and vice versa ;)
I don’t profess inordinate expertise in this body of knowledge. There may be better resources but those ones are sufficient to point out all the low hanging fruit I care about and then some.
Many people (in this case probably males) could benefit from having the realization “Oh, I’m supposed to put effort into signalling!”, going and finding 3 full outfits from one of those sites, buying them and then forgetting about fashion for a year or two. It will not make them optimal signalers but will give drastic improvements for trivial investment.
Once again, acting rationally is bad for signalling. :-(
EDIT: So how exactly are rational people supposed to win here? Perhaps by including prestige in your utility function and calculating how much danger is a reasonable tradeoff. To be extra careful when driving alone or with reasonable people, and relax safety standards with other people; but generally avoid driving with unreasonable people present.
Unless you care about signalling in which case it is overwhelmingly awesome for signalling and you collect an absolute ton of low hanging fruit by making a few google searches.
Such as? There are a hundred different theories about status and signaling but not a lot of useful suggestions or agreement on specifics that I’ve found.
Researching which clothes will best give the signals you wish to send.
Still, a lot of that has to do with different people’s preferences. If you’ve found a consistent, clear source for good info, I’d be interested though. Also, you’re in the UK: we think you guys look weird and vice versa ;)
Australia here.
But srsly, you have any good fashion websites?
I’ve found the following useful:
http://www.styleforum.net/ http://www.theurbangent.com http://au.askmen.com/fashion/
I don’t profess inordinate expertise in this body of knowledge. There may be better resources but those ones are sufficient to point out all the low hanging fruit I care about and then some.
Many people (in this case probably males) could benefit from having the realization “Oh, I’m supposed to put effort into signalling!”, going and finding 3 full outfits from one of those sites, buying them and then forgetting about fashion for a year or two. It will not make them optimal signalers but will give drastic improvements for trivial investment.
mutatis mutandis...