Same folks that dismiss psychographics as snake oil get manipulated by Netflix and Pandora recommendation engines. It’s terrifying to consider potential impact. We shouldn’t dismiss until we win access to our own data. #CambridgeAnalytica
https://pushpullfork.com/psychographic-profiling-and-cambridge-analytics/ … by @krisshaffer
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Your mileage may vary but the Music Genome Project was a sophisticated effort to build a “ground truth” based on inputs from musicologists and paying people with Amazon credits to evaluate music.
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That was the claim, and back in the day it seemed to kinda work.
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Then they got roped into the same illegal payola agreements as radio stations, promoting certain songs & artists and licensing only 1-2 songs per album and turned into just another awful radio station.
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Then they jacked up their prices 10x and just rode on customers who were comfortable with awful radio station behavior and never noticed the difference.
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