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> Someone who believes that vaccines are causing brain damage has already formed a contrary opinion, so in all likelihood would be expected to search for "vacci
by creato 8y ago
> Someone who believes that vaccines are causing brain damage has already formed a contrary opinion, so in all likelihood would be expected to search for "vaccines cause autism" (negative connotation).
I understand this, in fact, "vaccines cause autism" was exactly one of my test searches.
As for Tor: I don't have it and I'm not going to bother. And if nothing else, my region is a well known hotspot for anti-vaccine idiocy, so I would expect that to bias the test in favor of the filter bubble hypothesis, not against it.
- headmelted 8y ago^^ This makes me feel better, believe it or not. I still think an Internet search / social media PSA campaign is urgently needed.
- creato 8y ago> ^^ This makes me feel better, believe it or not. Frankly, why trust me? Why not try this yourself? I wish no one would trust random commenters on any social media, whether it be facebook or hackernews. I'd rather you not trust me, I only spent 5 minutes on it. For someone such as yourself with such a strong opinion on the topic, I think it is worth spending a bit more time on it. This is one of those rare issues where if you think there's a problem, it's not hard to check for yourself.
- headmelted 8y agoI have, insofar as searching from my own connection in multiple incognito windows - but as we've said that tells me nothing. I'm not going to download Tor because honestly I don't want my ISP thinking I'm up to no good (paranoid and ridiculous as I realize that is). Totally agree otherwise on trust not being a substitute for critical thinking and applied reason, and yes, it's the biggest problem of all of this.