[HN Gopher] Consumers and curators: browsing and voting patterns...
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       Consumers and curators: browsing and voting patterns on Reddit
        
       Author : bshanks
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2021-09-28 09:17 UTC (13 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (arxiv.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (arxiv.org)
        
       | jimbob45 wrote:
       | >It is important to be cognizant of potential sampling bias. The
       | only way to collect this data is for users to self-select, i.e.,
       | opt-in, to the project. Self-selection bias, especially in online
       | polling, for example, will often skew responses in favor of the
       | most motivated group.
       | 
       | Credit to these guys for stepping out in front of the most
       | glaringly obvious shortcoming of the study. I was hoping the
       | Reddit admins would have given them access to data that they
       | would then retroactively ask the users' permission to use.
        
       | chomp wrote:
       | >We also show evidence of cognitive fatigue in the browsing
       | sessions of users that are most likely to vote.
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       | Interesting, so if it holds that cognitive fatigue shows up from
       | interacting with content over long sessions, it means that sites
       | that optimize for engagement could end up draining people and
       | reducing the quality of their interactions.
       | 
       | If this holds true across all social media platforms, this
       | explains a lot.
        
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