Another new study indicates algorithms aren't driving polarization. The evidence is preliminary, but part of a growing trend of studies that don't find evidence of the much fabled extremist rabbit hole.https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563220303733 …
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What we need, I think, is a proper longitudinal panel study. (Our moment reminds me of the extensive survey work in the 2000s trying to find internet effects by comparing internet users to non-internet users—when we know the world doesn't divide like that.)
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I certainly agree (on the old internet effect work), but seems to me that we can think of some of the web tracking data is a substantial improvement and captures SOME longitudinal detail (though not in all the outcomes we might want to see)
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