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The article indicates that it was one of 28 personas created by meta. However, the reporters in between the story and you, thought that one would be interesting
by notavalleyman 2y ago
The article indicates that it was one of 28 personas created by meta. However, the reporters in between the story and you, thought that one would be interesting to you and so promoted it's relevance. In actuality, if you rolled a dice of potential human traits 28 times, this could be a statistically normal combination
- Jerrrry 2y agoLol 1 outta 28 isn't a black queer mom of two. The clash of these characteristics is what defy and define these unlikely odds. This is trolling rage bait. Like most big corp content.
- notavalleyman 2y agoI'm not sure if you're joking but your comment expresses it backwards - according to the op article, meta made 28 such bots. One of those bots had the insta profile tagline "queer black mom". In between meta's creation of the 28 and the story arriving on your dinner plate, someone decided to focus the coverage on that one of 28. They thought it would be interesting to people and clearly were right
- int_19h 2y agoWhat they're saying is that the odds of such a combo are far less than 1 in 28 IRL.
- notavalleyman 2y agoHow did you determine that?
- int_19h 2y agoI'm not OP and I have no idea what the actual odds are. But, well, only 15% of Americans are black to start with, and obviously only half of those are women - and at that point we're already down to 1 in 14. So, unless every other black woman is a queer mom, there's no way it's 1 in 28.
- notavalleyman 2y agoIf you were trying to mimic a distribution of Instagram users, and you rolled the dice 28 times, it's not unreasonable that this combination of traits could be expected one twenty eighth of the time. This is birthday paradox logic, not census logic
- Bobbyddxxd 2y agoA birthday is only one metric that the people in the school share. This is five variables.. So no..
- devjab 2y agoCan you explain why it is you think that makes it any better? I can think of no argument that would make this particular persona anything but a tremendously stupid idea. Even if it was one in a thousand personas it would almost certainly be found and singled out by articles like this one.
- notavalleyman 2y ago> how on earth did the issues with this not become obvious for the team? I haven't reviewed the context of all 28. But if "the team" were trying to do this rationally: perhaps they'd use census data to weight human characteristics and roll 28 dice. We might not expect more than one of 28 to end up as "queer black mom" but it's not necessarily "woke bait" or "rage bait" for one of 28 to land on those squares. Perhaps it was a logical way of assigning traits?
- devjab 2y agoI don't think it's woke or rage bait. As I said I think it's no real world experience and no common sense and I'm frankly amazed that nobody in a SoMe/advertisement organisation didn't consider how the world would react.