Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance

Re:Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance by dbatten on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:00AM (#16213560)

It's further concerning that he appears to have written his own example code for the speculative dark patterns, presenting it alongside real code from insurer websites, which I found misleading at best and downright deceptive at worst...

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Re:Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance by philipodonnell on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:01AM (#16214053)

And then, like, criticize the code quality it as if it came from them for design choices that _the author_ made?

> So, my laugh cry scenario here is that they statistically set/just have variables in the code base that say claims spanning a certain amount of time are denied. E.g.

WTF, you wrote that code!

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Re:Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance by balthasar on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @12:21PM (#16215249)

He is pointing out the arbitrary nature of the algorithm the workings of which was determined through research. The psuedo code is obviously not the point. The reader would have to either be ignorant of the discussion to make this mistake or intent on blurring the discussion.

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Re:Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance by bringtheaction on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:11AM (#16214144)

Well! That's rather ironic I'd say.

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Re:Dark Algorithms and UX in Health Insurance by JohnStudio on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @09:11AM (#16213639)

... at best.

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