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		hammock on Aug 31, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics Hacking democracy (ratings voting system, whatever) to indirectly effect a supposedly benevolent unilateral outcome? Sounds familiar.

jedberg on Aug 31, 2021 [–]

It's not exactly hacking democracy. Democracy implies every gets a vote. This is P hacking small sample sizes.

hammock on Aug 31, 2021 | | [–]

So it's engineering falsified scientific conclusions then. Still sounds familiar.

GoblinSlayer on Aug 31, 2021 | | [–]

It's not hacking, it's statistics.

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