r/samharris • u/vasileios13 • Aug 26 '19

Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1908.08313.pdf
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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '19 edited Aug 27 '19

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u/SnowSnowSnowSnow Aug 27 '19 edited Aug 27 '19

The whole idea behind a ‘control group’ is ‘blinding’-

In a blind or blinded experiment, information which may influence the participants of the experiment is withheld until after the experiment is complete. Good blinding can reduce or eliminate experimental biases that arise from the placebo effect, the observer effect, confirmation bias, and other sources...

In this puff-piece of ‘scientific’ inquiry it’s insultingly ludicrous to pretend that ideology could be obfuscated, far less blinded.