How to avoid false positives during User Interviews? 🙅🏻♀️
The author says, “I have been guilty of this on numerous occasions. As interviewers, we want the ideas we are validating to work out. We invested hours, maybe weeks, thinking about our ideas. Because we are so invested, we fall victim to “happy-ears-syndrome”.
Happy Ears Syndrome: Hearing only what you want to hear
The more “scientific” term here: False Positive
Let’s find out how to avoid false positives during user interviews
Time To Read: 3 Minutes
Published: May 2021
Link: How to avoid false positives during User Interviews? 🙅🏻♀️
Spotify is rolling out a feature that will let you tell it to ignore music in certain playlists when it’s deciding what type of music you like. The feature is called Exclude From Your Taste Profile, and the company is pitching it as a way to keep your recommendations from getting overrun by “songs and artists that don’t fit” your general listening habits.
It’s easy to imagine several scenarios where this ability could be useful. Your sleep playlist could end up getting a lot of listen time but may not have the type of music or sounds you want to listen to while you’re awake. It’s a similar story with work playlists, which could be very different from your off-the-clock music tastes. (One of my co-workers commented that their lo-fi beats playlists “killed” their discover weekly when we were discussing this feature.)
Spotify also says it’ll be useful if you have kids — the feature will let you have a playlist with their music easily accessible without telling the algorithm that you’d love a ton of Kidz Bop or Pinkfong in your daily mix.
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