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Re:Why We Disagree with The New York Times by jacobush on Monday June 04, 2018 @03:24PM (#17231235)
Medical trials are also just A/B testing. waves hands
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Re:Why We Disagree with The New York Times by jethro_tell on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:06PM (#17232460)
true, but most of them have opt in. . .. Like people know they are in the test even if they don't know if they are the control or not.
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Re:Why We Disagree with The New York Times by jacobush on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @03:29AM (#17235608)
That was my point, apparently that was not obvious at all. That is what I meant by the "hand waving" part. Being apologetic about FB just because what they did was some kind of A/B testing does not redeem them at all.
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