Could we do a proper study of, say, the behavior of recommendation algorithms without the participation of the company? Yes. It would need to be a panel study, and it would be expensive and difficult. It’s doable, but like any complex phenomenon not cheap or simple.
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LOL to anyone pretending to study recommendation algorithms without being logged in. It’s plausible YouTube’s has gotten better – partly because we highlighted the problem when they had their head in the sand. I also don’t think it’s fixable without “sacrificing” some engagement.
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I’d be interested in knowing who funded that “research"
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He says it's self-funded. I'm skeptical but agree that the complete lack of credible data is a huge problem.https://twitter.com/jeremykauffman/status/1211006760380764161 …
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Thanks for weighing in. This paper infuriated me. Seems like techies are the new physicist-cum-knowitalls, which is irksome to the extreme.
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Black box testing is what you all outside the company are doing to glimpse sociologically damaging outcomes from use of the product. BBT is common and often provides useful results.
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It's too bad that YouTube lacks transparency about how its directing the attention of 2 billion humans.
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Yep, that “paper” isn’t even wrong. One tragedy of all this is that, at the moment, only the companies can fully study phenomenon such as the behavior of recommendation algorithms. There are some great external studies that do give us a sense—but that’s all we get. Yet.