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RE: Building Long Term Value from your Blog
I would have thought popularity is subjective since it is subject to what people collectively think - similar to value
I would have thought popularity is subjective since it is subject to what people collectively think - similar to value
What people determine to be popular, is usually subjectively determind, but objective vauations can be used to favor something and everyone recognizeds that which makes it popular.
The objective part of popularity, or anything that is currently expressed in reality, is that it is currently in reality, as a certain quantity of whatever it is, hence it has an objective aspect to it due to it existing as a reference in reality.
People like apples but no oranges is subjective for the most part, but those people, and their liking something, is objectively true that they do or don't like something. So then, you could add up all the people who don't like something, and represent a certain popularity level against something. This is not looking at the subjective judgment of why people like something, but merely at the objective action that is part of reality: the choice to not eat the food they don't like.
I hope that clears it up. I was not saying popularity itself, is objective.