Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

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    1 year ago

    Another way to put that study’s weakness, in scientific terms, is that there’s no control group against which the studied group is being compared. There’s zero indication that the 2019 changes had any effect at all, without some data from before those changes.

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      1 year ago

      Always love when people try to hold social sciences to the same standard as physical sciences

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        1 year ago

        The subtitle of the article is “The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

        How do you draw a conclusion about trends based on data collected from one period of time?