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And yet, FAANG's somehow get way with employing credentialed psychologists and psychiatrists, to experiment on social media users, for maximizing their various
by perihelions 2y ago
And yet, FAANG's somehow get way with employing credentialed psychologists and psychiatrists, to experiment on social media users, for maximizing their various engagement and click metrics.
For the scale and impact of non-IRB human psychology research, that one has to be at the very top.
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- dehrmann 2y agoI'm not sure how much this actually happens or if product teams and algorithms figure it out just by trying different things and chasing engagement metrics.
- avalys 2y agoCite that this actually happens? Note that “this person is a psychologist and is employed by Meta working on user research” is not evidence that supports the statement you made.
- mrkeen 2y agoThis comes to mind https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-emotion-study-breached-ethical-guidelines-researchers-say https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/30/facebook-...
- avalys 2y agoIn what way does this article support the claim that psychologists “experiment on social media users for maximizing their various engagement and click metrics”?
- nxobject 2y agoI wouldn’t be surprised that, if Facebook was suddenly subject to extra scrutiny, they would just hire an independent IRB in the way that corporate clinical research does, e.g.: https://www.sterlingirb.com/ https://www.sterlingirb.com/ https://www.pearlirb.com/ https://www.pearlirb.com/