The guy in jeans at the Sotheby’s auction is more likely to buy a $40 million Picasso than the guy in the suit, who is probably just an art dealer.
Here is the link, thanks to Trieu Truong. Here is my previous post on counter-signaling.
Countersignaling, part #637
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years ago my wife worked for the japanese government and explained the
hierarchy (at the time) of executives’ suits. Junior execs almost
always wore expensive navy suits, mid-levels wore brown, and top levels
wore tan. If you saw someone wearing tweed it was almost certainly the
founder or top exec of the company.
Is leaving all that comment spam on that previous post on counter-signalling itself some sort of counter-signal?
Use of unattractive design and gray color in commercial/industrial/professional-grade equipment may also be considered as counter-signaling. An attractive and colorful design is even considered as a signal for incompetency in the equipment’s quality.
It’s not a definition but a pretty thorough explination of it:
Feltovich, Hargaugh, and To [1] develop a formal model in which receivers of signals judge the senders of signals based not only on what can be inferred from the signal sent, but also on additional information, which is assumed to be helpful but not perfect. For example, senders might be of Low, Medium, or High quality, and the additional information might be adequate for distinguishing Low from High but not necessarily from distinguishing Medium from Low or High. Under certain circumstances, Medium-quality senders will have an incentive to signal (to ensure that they can be distinguished from Low-quality ones), but High-quality senders may not – they are not likely to be mistaken for Low-quality senders in any case, and signaling behavior may mark them as Medium.
It comes down to in most signaling behavior the high (very high) status members seek to do something contrary to the expected signal to separate themselves from all the medium status folk. A good example in the last thread is, once all of your peers can afford the nice steak house, only someone really impressive would be allowed to remain while in gross violation of the dress code.
[The guy in jeans at the Sotheby's auction is more likely to buy a $40 million Picasso than the guy in the suit, who is probably just an art dealer.]
this one actually cried out for a great big loud “Oh Yeahhhh????!”. It just isn’t true. I hope that this habit of making stuff up is one that Murdoch stamps on, hard.
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