Talk:Halo effect

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[edit] Update

The bit about AMD processors not being better than Intels... sounds like bias to me. 71.115.103.59 17:04, 2 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why to modify?

In what sense u talk to update in the form of halo effect in photoshops like that or in the same meanng in educationl aresearch?

Dr KS Sajan

I agree with Nick, I have a very different idea of the "Halo effect." As it states in the List of cognitive biases, "the tendency for a person's positive or negative traits to 'spill over' from one area of their personality to another in others' perceptions of them." This goes for not just physical appearance, it's for everything. For example, take an awesome basketball player like Michael Jordan- many people I've met think he's the perfect person, is the most intelligent person they know, etc. but it's an example of the Halo effect. Is Jordan intelligent? He might well be, it doesn't really matter. Those people attribute his (great) skill in his sport to everything. I can list a ton of examples, but I think you get the picture. It's more than just appearance. -Chewbacca 05:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

I just want to point out that as a common expression "halo effect" often refers to "chromatic abberation." Perhaps a disambiguation is in order? 68.55.41.66 R. Collins

[edit] Confusing

I read:

A common example of the halo effect is when a person is assumed to be smart because he or she is wearing spectacles. Another is that good-looking schoolchildren (or good looking people versus plain looking people) are assumed to be less clever.

and changed 'less' to 'more', thinking that it was an error - surely the halo effect means that one positive quality (good looks) causes observers to overestimate another positive quality (intelligence), so it should read 'more clever'. But then I read 'However it is believed that most beautiful people have an intelligence below the mean' in the article Physical attractiveness stereotype, which actually contradicts the halo effect (unless one regards intelligence as a negative quality).

I've changed this article back to read 'less clever', but this is not, then, an example of the Halo effect. Can someone who knows about this look at it and decide which it should be? It's confusing at the moment. --Squiddy | (squirt ink?) 14:53, 29 March 2006 (UTC)