Glancing at some of the replies it seems like there's two groups: "OMG how awful, he's making all those fast food workers make ice cream cones for nothing" vs "Well of course he's not actually completing the orders, why would anyone do that?" I'm in the latter
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raises hand
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also, he specifically called out the McDonalds analytics team, which is going to look at things put in shopping carts vs checked out, so when he talked about "placing orders", I read it in that context - why did our conversion rate drop from 67.8% to 37.2% !?!?!?!
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I don't care enough about this to argue at length, so I refer you to this Hacker News comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24865026 …pic.twitter.com/IH0eAQii9S
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I see why you might have concluded he was lying, and it’s a reasonable conclusion. But I think it’s the wrong conclusion. I think he did not intend to deceive anyone, for clicks or otherwise.
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Replying to @random_eddie @sonyasupposedly and
I could easily see myself making the same statement had I done what he did, and I’d be troubled to learn you thought I was lying; I’d want a chance to explain and hopefully persuade you otherwise. ... were I he.
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and I bet you could, because I bet you wouldn't egregiously exaggerate for RTs we just see this incident quite differently, I think
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We do, I’m sure (which is fine!). I don’t see any exaggeration, for example. I see impeccable accuracy, the kind that I appreciate as a nerd, the kind that could only have come from looking at the results of a query over the data he’s collected.
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well frankly you're just wrong about what "placed an order" means ...argh I didn't want to get into this
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frankly, twitter is wrong, because I've clicked "mute this thread" 3 times, and it doesn't work
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