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 …
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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*measurement* issues.
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