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Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Manipulate Online Opinions
jcatcw writes "A recent study shows that a single random up-vote, randomly chosen, created a herding behavior in ratings that resulted in a 25% increase in the ratings but the negative manipulation had no effect. An intuitive explanation for this asymmetry is that we tend to go along with the positive opinions of others, but we tend to be skeptical of the negative opinions of others, and so we go in and correct what we think is an injustice. The third major result was that these effects varied by topic. So in business and society, culture, politics, we found substantial susceptibility to positive herding, whereas in general news, economics, IT, we found no such herding effects in the positive or negative direction."
+1
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+1, begin Stampede.
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Well you've commented, so now you're worthless to us all.
just testing the theory...
Table-ized A.I.
Since when is science objective? Fat cat climate scientists riding high on the tax payer grants don't do a damn thing objective!
You have confused "idiots who can't grasp the math and instead accept Limbaugh's drivel as gospel" with "scientists". Easy mistake, apparently, since the majority of Americans make the same one.
I predict this post will be forgotten quickly and accomplish nothing
This guy has balls of crystal, I tell you!
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