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These guys should take some clues from quantum mechanics, where observing or trying to control the system observed screws it up. “Physics found we can take ad
by d--b 8y ago
These guys should take some clues from quantum mechanics, where observing or trying to control the system observed screws it up.
“Physics found we can take advantage of Facebook to spread opinions and control people’s minds” - “oh shit, we polarized the people, and now we’re on the verge of WWIII”
- ecocentrik 8y ago"These guys" have been considering biases introduced by injecting an observer into a social space for a long time now. I think you might have missed the point of the article and the social sciences.
- greenpresident 8y agoThere are several famous examples of this in economics. See for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect <-- Observing behaviour changes said behaviour, leading to invalid observations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucas_critique <-- Treating relationships between variables as structural and changing one to influence the other will affect the supposed underlying structural relationship.