Thank you for posting this. I was reconsidering writing a response to that, but you phrased it very well.
An excellent eye opening article I have read about this: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/N2pENnTPB75sfc9kb/outside-th... which discusses scientists believing in religion. The arguments also apply to any rational person who forms beliefs based on evidence which I would say is a necessary property to be intelligent. Hence it irks me when someone says "intelligent people believe in god too"
This statement seems very suspect to confirmation bias. How would you get to know if what you think is genuine was actually fake? This part of feedback loop is completely missing, and hence I find your above statement hard to believe.
Although I do not disagree with your comment, I would do a double take befpre accepting the source you cite because they are very much incentived to proclaim the result they proclaim.
> Carousels are good for things users should be vaguely aware of but are not likely to click on
Carousels should be used to set the _tone_ of the webpage, and not be meant for content to be clicked on.
For example, all major fashion e-commerce website dedicate large amount of homepage screen-estate to a carousel showing their major brands, current discounts, etc. The user can still use the search or menu functionality to look for what they want (and I think majority do), but now the tone of the business has been set.
I felt it was justified after you called their opinion a "junior's" rant.