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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I'm all fine assuming small individual effects (on average) but that feedback cycle plus the incentive reshaping for all players (including those classified incorrectly as "non-algortithmic") can be both substantial & easy to miss with cross-sectional methods with narrow data.
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Agreed. But wouldn't you also agree that the evidence to support the algorithm hypothesis could similarly be confounded by all sorts of other similar processes and management issues?
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As the author of a book about how fringe ideas become mainstream via emergent processes I agree ;) But it's not clear to me that this is driven by algorithms anymore than other forms of collective behavior
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Hahaha yes. Congratulations, btw! But how can it not be part of the cycle? Incentives matter, and if these algorithms had no effect, the companies who measure everything to death wouldn't use them. It's not *just* driven by algorithms: yes, that is obviously and trivially true.
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