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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      eigenrobot Retweeted Sam Parr  ⚪️

      this is very funny to me I homed in on this paragraph too here, thread concept "One Reporter (Me) Talked to a Data Scientist (Also Me) about Clickbait. Here's How Tech Companies (Media Are Tech Companies) Make Product Decisions"https://twitter.com/theSamParr/status/1278815366940995585 …

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      Sam Parr  ⚪️ @theSamParr
      Look, I think there are great points on both sides. But this writer is 100% WRONG about this, which to me, shows they don't really understand what's going on. Source: I own(ed) or been part of multiple clickbait sites that make MILLIONS. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7w3zw/silicon-valley-elite-discuss-journalists-having-too-much-power-in-private-app … pic.twitter.com/rphbUKZNFP
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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      If you are a competent tech company, you hire data scientists to analyze everything. Fortunately you also have data on everything. Are you at Amazon? Maybe you run price experiements and map out demand curves. Are you at Google? You probably A/B test effects of ranking changes.

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      Twitter? Maybe you look at how changing the size of of the like button by two pixels affects engagement. There are lots of ways to measure these effects, and there is a deep art to it, but everything gets measured and product decisions are made based on these measurements.

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      I don't see any way that fine-grained behavior like this doesn't change what gets published or emphasized. NYT has 6M subscribers and, probably (I have no idea), ten or thirty times as many daily visitors. That is /absolutely/ sufficient to run all sorts of exciting tests.

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      I absolutely believe them that their ad revenue is shit and they're shifting to a subscription-based model. This in no way suggests that they're not biased in their reporting. Suppose I were a data scientist at NYT. I have no idea what their data are like, but I can imagine.

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      Live events are hilarious to me (prestige laundering), and optioning I know little about; let's focus on subscriptions. It's most amenable to analytic exploitation.

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    7. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      Here are some questions I would ask immediately if they were paying me. 1. What sort of articles do people read immediately before subscribing? 2. Unsubscribing? (Complicated by the absolute shit process of unsubbing) 3. How does article ordering affect p(subscription)?

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    8. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      That's it. I would be shocked if they didn't have well-developed subscription/unsubscription attribution models that mapped subs/unsubs to articles, which may be easily classified by topic. Why else would you be hiring multiple data engineers?pic.twitter.com/twOuwYbzny

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

      If you think editors don't steer coverage on the basis of what is likely to generate revenue, I am so sorry for the loss of your naivete, but media companies are businesses and if they money they go under and managers lose their jobs or at least don't get promoted

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        2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

          Strictly speaking: maybe it's not as revenue (although also be real, my god it's a company it will take any revenue it can get and this too is measured and optimized) But it doesn't matter Incentives to shape coverage are the same and none of these people are to be trusted.

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020

          Contemplate this on the Tree of Woe.

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        2. dji  ☠️ nnius  🇮🇲‏ @djinnius 2 Jul 2020
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          this thread has some seriously uncomfortable implications for the probable effect on the world of the work you perform at $dayjob.

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        3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot 2 Jul 2020
          Replying to @djinnius

          I cannot comment on this generally but in my specific case naw I am totally harmless

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        1. Tyler DIR DIN‏ @SquaresToCubes 2 Jul 2020
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          @nyt_diff

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        1. Four Loko’s Basilisk‏ @dangolant 2 Jul 2020
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          I can guarantee from experience that even the most oafish media org knows that ex: ads don’t sell against bad news. Vice’s claim here is essentially “sex does not sell”

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        2. Password is Taco‏ @pw_is_taco1 2 Jul 2020
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          But the key is bosses realize this, but journos dont NYT dramatically expanded their Trump & culture (read: outrage) coverage, hiring a bunch more staff Those reporters think & are told theyre there to do "important" work but the bottom line is their work drives subs and clicks

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        3. Password is Taco‏ @pw_is_taco1 2 Jul 2020
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          You know what's " important " work? Outing local corruption You know what class of journos has been wiped out, bc their work doesn't drive national-scale rage clicks?

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        1. The Doctor‏ @TennantRob 2 Jul 2020
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          Reporters pitch stories (their likes), editors select stories (their likes, including economic), they receive feedback and after a few iterations, reporters have been trained to match that which provides positive reinforcement. Ultimately, clicks, likes, dollars, biases.

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