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The interesting thing to me is how online numbers are nowhere near statistically significant and yet they "matter" to people. There are billions of people, tho
by makecheck 9y ago
The interesting thing to me is how online numbers are nowhere near statistically significant and yet they "matter" to people. There are billions of people, thousands just in your neighborhood (probably) and yet most people interact with a few dozen network links and the few dozen comment posts they are likely to read. That skew is gigantic, and it should terrify people that they are not relying on more professionally-edited sources.
- camillomiller 9y agoWhat makes the difference, I guess, is the fact that you can actually measure "agreement" in a direct way, with numbers of "agreement units" such as likes. Very easy to misread and blew it out of proportion. Facebook KNOWS that and definitively leverages that. The mission of the company is inherently broken and Mark Zuckerberg, if he's really being honest when he talks about it, well then he's in full blown denial.