[HN Gopher] Causal Information Affects Decisions
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       Causal Information Affects Decisions
        
       Author : NetBeck
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2021-12-10 12:48 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | dsizzle wrote:
       | Maybe this is more common than I realize, but I was surprised
       | they used Mechanical Turk to find subjects.
        
         | gwern wrote:
         | It is more common than you realize. Turkers are all over the
         | place in psychology, sociology, machine learning, etc. It's
         | something of a methodological issue: Turkers are extremely
         | convenient and cheap, but they are also not necessarily
         | representative of any realistic population, and the data can be
         | absolute garbage sometimes... but at other times, they're great
         | and they get you results at 1/10th or better the cost, so you
         | can't just write off Turk entirely. Too useful to not use a
         | lot, too dangerous to use blithely.
        
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