"This member of X is a bad person" is useful data if X has a dozen members. If X has 10 mil members, it's useless. Worse than useless. 1/5
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We discount bad examples in small, high-status groups--exactly where that kind of information is actually relevant and important. 4/5
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Applications to 2015 social media left as an exercise for the reader. I wrote these tweets a year ago, and it hasn't gotten better. 5/5
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