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All of this content control will be an interesting social experiment. I would like to see a clear hypothesis though, and ways we can judge whether this is a suc
by jeffdavis 6y ago
All of this content control will be an interesting social experiment. I would like to see a clear hypothesis though, and ways we can judge whether this is a success or failure.
(I'm using the term "content control" to mean something that kind of feels like censorship but not done with laws.)
- jfengel 6y agoEven if the made a nice clear hypothesis, they won't have a control group. So the hypothesis would be meaningless. Real life rarely gives you as much control as you'd like. You can't simply opt out of making decisions; even choosing not to do anything is a decision. You take your best guess based on your best interpretation of what knowledge you've managed to accumulate, but many of the most important decisions you make will always be based on insufficient information. That's true at a personal level as well as the social level.
- jeffdavis 6y agoI agree that it couldn't be a rigorous double-blind. But the point is to make some kind of prediction about the results a policy will have, so that you can later reflect on what actually does happen.
- nkurz 6y agoHopefully this is deep enough in a thread not to be in the way, but I noticed in some other threads that you were getting pushback on your username. Could you possibly clarify, and perhaps add something to your profile, whether that is "My name is really Jeff Davis" or "I'm a proud Southerner" or whatever the reason might actually be?