Wired's Ryan Singel quotes Yahoo! Chief Scientist Prabhakar Raghavan:
But there's a misconception, according to Raghavan, that the world is divided into BoingBoing viewers — the freaks — and Justin Bieber fans — the normals.
The data say otherwise.
"The truth is everyone is partially weird," Raghavan said. "We all have head interests and make forays into something weird."
Yahoo Wants to Blind the Competition With Science [Wired Epicenter]
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