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Here's a few thousand more stories[1], but yes. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31561597 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31561597

gruez 4y ago
According to a cursory search "More than 66,400 people were experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County at the start of 2020". From that population it doesn't seem too hard to cherrypick 1000 interesting/sympathetic people to interview. Without at least an affirmative statement from them (ie. "we randomly pick interviewees and publish every interview that we conduct") it's hard to be sure.
- guerrilla 4y ago
  I mean they just walk up to people. You can see that. They're unedited.
  - gruez 4y ago
    I'm not questioning the interviewing process (ie. misrepresenting what was said in the interview), I'm questioning the publication/selection process itself (ie. conducting interviews but only choosing to publish the sympathetic interviewees, or deliberately profiling potential interviewees to select for the most sympathetic ones). I looked at the two youtube channels you linked, and while they might have unedited interviews, there isn't obvious indication that the interview candidates were selected at random or otherwise free of bias (ie. an continuous hour long video interviewing people one after the other).
    - guerrilla 4y ago
      I understand, selection bias. I mean I don't know how Mark chooses his interviewees (he never says and he's never shown on the street) but many of them are extremely unsympathetic (certain pimps, for example), a couple are simultaneously likeable but clearly evil, and some are super boring, so I don't think there's any kind of intentional bias. As far as IP, they just walk up to random people, which you can see in some of the videos. They definitely want to help people, but it's not like they hide drug addiction or anything like that if that's what you're worried about [1]. 1. https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisiblePeople/search?query=drugs https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisiblePeople/search?query=drugs
  - SilasX 4y ago
    The first link is clearly in a studio environment, with extensive effort at production. That’s a lot more than “just walking up” to people and not editing.

gruez 4y ago

According to a cursory search "More than 66,400 people were experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles County at the start of 2020". From that population it doesn't seem too hard to cherrypick 1000 interesting/sympathetic people to interview. Without at least an affirmative statement from them (ie. "we randomly pick interviewees and publish every interview that we conduct") it's hard to be sure.

guerrilla 4y ago
I mean they just walk up to people. You can see that. They're unedited.
- gruez 4y ago
  I'm not questioning the interviewing process (ie. misrepresenting what was said in the interview), I'm questioning the publication/selection process itself (ie. conducting interviews but only choosing to publish the sympathetic interviewees, or deliberately profiling potential interviewees to select for the most sympathetic ones). I looked at the two youtube channels you linked, and while they might have unedited interviews, there isn't obvious indication that the interview candidates were selected at random or otherwise free of bias (ie. an continuous hour long video interviewing people one after the other).
  - guerrilla 4y ago
    I understand, selection bias. I mean I don't know how Mark chooses his interviewees (he never says and he's never shown on the street) but many of them are extremely unsympathetic (certain pimps, for example), a couple are simultaneously likeable but clearly evil, and some are super boring, so I don't think there's any kind of intentional bias. As far as IP, they just walk up to random people, which you can see in some of the videos. They definitely want to help people, but it's not like they hide drug addiction or anything like that if that's what you're worried about [1]. 1. https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisiblePeople/search?query=drugs https://www.youtube.com/c/InvisiblePeople/search?query=drugs
- SilasX 4y ago
  The first link is clearly in a studio environment, with extensive effort at production. That’s a lot more than “just walking up” to people and not editing.