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I'm not familiar with this particular set of findings, but generally speaking internal research at Facebook are generally either large scale in-app surveys (whi
by tqi 5y ago
I'm not familiar with this particular set of findings, but generally speaking internal research at Facebook are generally either large scale in-app surveys (which suffer from response bias) or small scale (often ~10 participants from a single city) in-person interviews. It's useful for informing product roadmaps, but I don't think we can really draw bigger conclusions from it. Put it a different way, if this research had found that Instagram was NOT toxic for teen girls, would anyone buy that?
- blobbers 5y agoYou're claiming a company that has over 20% of the WORLD POPULATION is informing themselves based on 10 participants from a single city? Are you making fun of their internal research team? Yes, if a rigorous study found that social media helped girls, and there were replications of said study, then people would buy that. This is how research works!
- tqi 5y agoMost UXR is not the same as a rigorous (ie peer reviewed) study. Not every qual study is in person interviews, but based on the part about users bringing topics up unprompted I'm guessing that's what at least some of this was based on.
- bryan_w 5y agoInteresting point you bring up. If this research claimed the opposite result, people here would be ripping it apart, but since it confirms their biases, they double down on it and accept it as ground truth.