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I like this idea as another possible interpretation of that data point. Essentially you're saying that it's because everyone's clicking the more conservative li
by mfoy_ 11y ago
I like this idea as another possible interpretation of that data point. Essentially you're saying that it's because everyone's clicking the more conservative links which causes the skew, albeit for different reasons.
The only point I'm trying to make is that the simple sounding sentence "we estimate the factor decrease in the likelihood that an individual clicks on a cross-cutting article relative to the proportion available in News Feed to be 17% for conservatives and 6% for liberals" really let's you draw your own conclusions.
- V-2 11y agoNote that the paper observes: "liberals tend to be connected to fewer friends who share information from the other side, compared to their conservative counterparts: 24% of the hard content shared by liberals’ friends are cross-cutting, compared to 35% for conservatives" The more articles that I can't agree with I find in my feed, the less likely I am to click on one of them than a guy who sees them less often. Even if we both read exactly 3 such articles a week.