Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Studies with a Single Video
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#2From the article "Prolific, a tool for scientists conducting behavioral research, had no screening tools in place to make sure that it delivered representative population samples to each study.". I would argue that studies from this tool were already disrupted if you are not screening your users in some way.
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#3The TikToker sent too many female-identifying people aged around 21
To fix it they've released a press release to tech blogs which will bring older and more male-identifying people in
Very meta
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#4If linking to a public study can "break" it, it was already broken.
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#5If linking to a public study can "break" it, it was already broken.
The tool was bad but the data could still be good if they were getting representative samples.
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#6This is odd considering Prolific makes users input a bunch of demographic info (age, sex, location, education, ethnicity/race, etc) so that researchers can target specific demographics for their surveys. Did the researchers just assume that Prolific would deliver something balanced on it's own?
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#7“Young women who enjoy TikTok are people too"
I don't think people who use tik tok should be classified as a human. I'm ready to die in this hill.
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#8“Young women who enjoy TikTok are people too" I don't think people who use tik tok should be classified as a human. I'm ready to die in this hill.
What a stupid hill to die on.
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#9The TikToker sent too many female-identifying people aged around 21 To fix it they've released a press release to tech blogs which will bring older and more male-identifying people in Very meta
Off-topic, but do you always use the “sex identifying” construction in place of “men / women”? - it seems a bit inelegant, and if you hold “TWAW” as true also unnecessary.
Not intended as snarky, but I was slightly jarred by the ACLU’s removal of the word “woman” from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote yesterday, and wondered whether this was now ‘a thing’ (at least in the US).
Re: Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Studies with a Single Video
#10The TikToker sent too many female-identifying people aged around 21 To fix it they've released a press release to tech blogs which will bring older and more male-identifying people in Very meta
Off-topic, but do you always use the “sex identifying” construction in place of “men / women”? - it seems a bit inelegant, and if you hold “TWAW” as true also unnecessary. Not intended as snarky, but I was slightly jarred by the ACLU’s removal of the word “woman” from a Ruth Bader Ginsburg quote yesterday, and wondered whether this was now ‘a thing’ (at least in the US).
Just trying to be inclusive tbh
I try to remove gender references in all of my comments, but in this instance it was relevant so I went with the most inclusive option I could think of
No idea if that's a thing for you folks, I'm in the UK. I'd have to look up ACLU to see what it stands for