A Peek at A/B Testing in the Wild

data_society's bookmarks 2016-05-31

Summary:

[Dillon Reisman was previously an undergraduate at Princeton when he worked on a neat study of the surveillance implications of cookies. Now he’s working with the WebTAP project again in a research + engineering role. — Arvind Narayanan] In 2014, Facebook revealed that they had manipulated users’ news feeds for the sake of a psychology study […]

Link:

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/dreisman/a-peek-at-ab-testing-in-the-wild/

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Tags:

dsreads experiments a/b testing research ethics reverse engineering manipulation public sphere

Authors:

Dillon Reisman

Date tagged:

05/31/2016, 00:25

Date published:

05/26/2016, 16:58