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Attila Kinali

@aral Or it could be because on the fediverse there are more people who are critical of big tech companies than on twitter. Aka sampling bias.

24 Dec 2021 at 15:01 | Wall-to-wall | Open on society.oftrolls.com
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Aral Balkan

@attilakinali You realise these are still my followers we’re talking about, right?

24 Dec 2021 at 20:26 | Open on mastodon.ar.al
Attila Kinali

@aral Are you assuming that all your followers are the same? That none of them has a different personality? A different opinion?

24 Dec 2021 at 21:16 | Open on society.oftrolls.com
Aral Balkan

@attilakinali Not at all. But I am implying that following me is a sampling bias that’s stronger and more relevant than that of the generic sampling bias difference between Twitter and the fediverse’s general audience.

24 Dec 2021 at 21:36 | Open on mastodon.ar.al
Attila Kinali

@aral Look man. You write something that elicits a response from a specific type of people. You look at the reaction you get on different platforms from that one single post? Sample of one statistics? Not accounting for any biases at all? Really?
That's the kind of pseudo scientific behavior I detest. It's the kind of thing that deceives people. Or rather, it's how people deceive themselves. You think you understood something. But what you really did was feed a GIGO system. And lied to yourself.

24 Dec 2021 at 22:00 | Open on society.oftrolls.com
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