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I don't think the people "writing dark patterns," whatever that means, have math degrees.

• akhmatova 5y ago
  If you don't know what it means (which is very easy to find out, btw) then why are you offering your advice and insight into the matter?
  • pc86 5y ago
    I know very well what they are, and that math plays no role in them beyond being able to understand an A/B test.
    • kodah 5y ago
      Juxtaposing the effort to get a math or law degree just to be a grifter was the intent!
    • akhmatova 5y ago
      You just said "people doing X, whatever that means" which strongly suggests that (at the time of writing) you either didn't know or care what X (in this case "dark patterns") means. And which is about as funny as this other snippet you just wrote: "Math plays no role in them beyond being able to understand an A/B test (i.e. to be able to understand math)" Anyway the commenter's point wasn't that writing software with dark patterns requires super-heavy math (or even a math degree specifically). But how ironic it is that people with (sometimes highly prestigious) STEM degrees -- and who are in fact objectively quite smart otherwise, sometimes almost intimidatingly so -- end up at allegedly prestigious companies that we don't need to name doing ... basically mindless and socially harmful work like this. And getting paid quite handsomely for it.