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Yup, but "do people click on a blue button than a green button?" could also be accurately described as a psychological experiment. Every single A/B test that in
by sidr 8y ago
Yup, but "do people click on a blue button than a green button?" could also be accurately described as a psychological experiment. Every single A/B test that involves user interactions could be described as a psychological experiment. Yet we don't hear the mass media outrage directed at literally every other website in existence.
- pm90 8y ago> Yup, but "do people click on a blue button than a green button?" could also be accurately described as a psychological experiment No it wouldn't. Only to a person who knows nothing about psychology or about experiments would that phrase accurately describe a psychological experiment.
- cronix 8y ago> Yet we don't hear the mass media outrage directed at literally every other website in existence. Sorry, let's rephrase. "Harmful psychological testing" Sure, A/B tests have a psychological component, although the tests don't specifically test for that or they'd be after the reason WHY they clicked on blue vs green. They don't care why, they only care about which got more clicks in order to choose which one to go with. They usually also tend to actually test something, like a feature. What feature was FB A/B testing? They weren't. It was a pure psychological test, with harmful results. You honestly don't see a distinction?