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It would be really interesting if this resulted in a natural A/B experiment, i.e. by comparing the Solomon's with another pacific island group, we could tease a
by OscarTheGrinch 6y ago
It would be really interesting if this resulted in a natural A/B experiment, i.e. by comparing the Solomon's with another pacific island group, we could tease apart social phenomena like cohesion, polarisation, distracted parenting etc.
Shit would get real if we could compare two larger nations, Hungary and Poland for example, to see if any negative effects could be reversed.
Of course FB will come up with all manner of excuses why they can't possibly do this, but here is the rub: if their products were actually good for society they should want to do this sort of research.
- IngvarLynn 6y agoI believe humanity had enough of nation-scale a/b tests in just single 20th century. Is it time to draw some conclusions? Nah, noone needs that, also boring. And testing is so much fun!
- Cyclone_ 6y agoIt would be nice to be able to do some A/B testing with Facebook, but I don't think it would work on a nation to nation basis. There's too many other factors involved. It would be more interesting to try on a very local basis, e.g. if every other house in a small city had Facebook.