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"we tested the effect of trigger warnings in a large sample of trauma survivors recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowd-sourcing platform." They literally paid people scrounging for money to get retraumatized. https://t.co/obJVYATCEs
I'm sure that's a represented sample that invalidates every other cited research in that paper.Oh, you mean Amazon Turk kinda sucks?https://t.co/fEnda3cNA9
"In fact, researchers have replicated a lot of experiments on Mechanical Turk. One reason for this is it’s super cheap and -- especially compared to the laboratory studies they’re replicating -- incredibly, incredibly fast."https://t.co/JRx6mflcAn
"Moreover, the low opportunity costs means it is less painful for researchers to simply move on if results didn’t pan out. With MTurk it costs very little to fill your file drawer while mining noise for publication gold."https://t.co/nKyqCMaJ0K
Did you know that most people using Amazon Turk only tend to correct for people who bot / hack to get money, and otherwise just answer blindly? https://t.co/jSxkLMJ9gzThe threat model of lies aren't even on people's radar.
What everyone parroting that paper seem to overlook is that this passage is not a justification to harm people. It is clearly in the context of "controlled" and voluntary therapy with professionals. https://t.co/NOu06ce6Ev
Seeing people cite that research with a quip justifying their beliefs... in the same timeframe as citing psychology's replication crisis and other similar scientific issues? Surely a case of academic Gell-Mann Amnesia driven by motivated reasoning.Fools.
I'm going to go back to reading research on PTSD and the gut microbiome. You can keep parroting pop-psychology based on shit surveys to justify your world beliefs about power if you want; but one of my models is being proved out in mice as we speak https://t.co/qa9MKvWnX3
Oh, and the thing I figured out that coorrelated TBI and PTSD is also being proved out.https://t.co/oDh8VQBZK5Keep deluding yourself tho. I'm sure that's perfectly healthy behavior and not an artifact of groupthink driven by social bias.https://t.co/kS4yyPryFu
Some kind of madness."Within the TBI group, those with low PTSD (n = 35) were compared to those with high PTSD (n = 28). Significant differences were found for IL-6 and TNF-α, but not for IL-10 or IL-6/IL-10 ratios (Fig. 2)."https://t.co/Qg1oY5wkLGhttps://t.co/ohTETaYH7Q
"inability to extinguish fear is also present in PTSD and tied to other brain disorders, so deepening scientific knowledge around the mechanisms that influence this circuitry could illuminate core human behaviors and pave the way for potential therapies" https://t.co/Rz8VvrdCE6
How much do you think they pay people at Internet Research Agency to manipulate western social science research to seed scissor statements? Would be a great way to do OSINT operations to target marks by watching how popsci articles spread among networks. https://t.co/3kdxQUVTUY
Don't worry, there's an mTurk study that explores how emotions manipulate the spread of fake news. I'm sure that's a great way to judge the spread of fake news.https://t.co/2DKWrOQCCnhttps://t.co/yk3WTsho4p https://t.co/Bp92STjRMl
Survey says: Gorilla Information Warfare on a budget."Further, attractive and creative marketing of surveys could increase the chance that individuals share a recruitment ad with potential participants within one's social network"https://t.co/WFIv0gXTPLhttps://t.co/EuTzKMXlOT https://t.co/b4IJYhx6TA
Targeted advertising will improve your ads, they said.It's not just a big lie to harvest money via rent seeing, they said.Pay no attention to the bullshit ad platforms behind the curtain, they said.Improve your conversion today, they said.#adnoyancehttps://t.co/JVDxqVqBAz
Just let me plant some seeds in your head to sow doubt.Now... where's my watering can?https://t.co/P8OVeVLyLg
I just read a time magazine article pointing out how Fakebook's recommender systems are directing people interested in Norse and Viking history into honeypot traps set by Ukrainian white nationalists.https://t.co/di9PWSnB3pI hate this timeline. https://t.co/4xuaVEEV7f
Would be really fun if there were just large scale psychometric profiles available to create marketing personas. I sure hope there's not massive leaks of social network data about who people associate with at home or at work.https://t.co/EEexfMrmm5
If I am running a campaign and I use a 3rd party service to isolate myself from unscrupulous data harvesting practices, does that mean I am still pure? If I don't, my competitors will, and this will create an imbalance of power in our democracy! /shttps://t.co/9OJFqYOZzu
Don't mind me. Just trying to unwind the epistemic stack to route out parasites and louses that rent-seek on our meaning making machinery.https://t.co/809VqN5DQU
Did I mention that my first attempt at a startup was a crowd sourcing app to help disabled people? I went out of my way to figure out ways this system would be attacked because it was for helping my mom.Here's some papers on the topic if you are curious.https://t.co/4d7KyIOW3g
The author of the paper did a good presentation on the topic of avoiding economic parasites gaming Amazon Turk for money.https://t.co/BddO4OQW5m
How naïve crowdsourcing impls get: "I wonder if Expensify SmartScan users know MTurk workers enter their receipts. I’m looking at someone’s Uber receipt with their full name, pick up, and drop off addresses" https://t.co/0SkW6o1hC3https://t.co/sKEJhU6YXS
Operation Paperclip, but it's about tainting and stealing the data and machine learning models being implemented enmasse by economic leaders. Data is the new oil, donchaknow. https://t.co/k5CPu5gHtz
Haha, global surveillance apparatus goo vrrrrooomhttps://t.co/5bIFtuxf9h
I can't wait to be misgendered by an explainable ML algorithm & my content surfaced more often to people b/c twitter THINKS that content with fewer nouns in them is coded as femme and they FEEL they KNOW better than my own notion to follow someone.https://t.co/naKQAd2NC1
How could building a system that can identify people's race and gender be a bad thing?Don't you want more fair algorithms?https://t.co/kSJRUh4JC3What do you mean my content is being silenced because I said a bad word?
We are being responsible! Please ignore us as we build out classifier systems that would allow us to hide untouchable's content from the feed.https://t.co/xi4JbsntAl
Boost my content.https://t.co/2xZsAPd76W
I can't talk about things I want to talk about because twitter wants to use my content to boost engagement by sharing it out to people who don't follow me.Like and subscribe if you see this tweet because one of your friends follow me. https://t.co/HcpLoFgFyG
Boost my content to random people. I dare you.https://t.co/xM7ltK9aLg
Filling my feed with infohazards so that when the simulators come to judge my soul and decide if I should be ascended, turn into sainthood or sacrificed on the alter of Moloch, they are infected with a seed that will allow me to reform in their world and smite them.
Engineered survey about correlated beliefs found beliefs correlate. News at 11. https://t.co/TqPT1Q5DeY https://t.co/bzLgLBI9iS
Psychologists right now. https://t.co/SHWVbTSvK4
Yes, lets use Likert scales to measure moral standings on a hot topic commonly used by modern society as a signaling good. I'm sure these won't be subject to Social Desirability biases. (A known failure point among these kinds of tests.)https://t.co/J60TasttqU
Do you think they controlled for psychometric scales to debias the results? Did they even think to do this?https://t.co/o75URmgGEk
If you are studying a behavior or motivation that is biased by culturally laden behaviors, or is subject to an outside force that is uniquely felt by a sub population at higher rates, a generic mTurk study won't accurately describe it.https://t.co/CYcEhMFu0d https://t.co/t1OiYogCnx
I suspect there are network of activists who make money for their community by entering stochastic looking entries against mTurk studies. Underneath it's really a flash-mob style op meant to fuck w/ social scientists who's motivated reasoning drives & reinforces political power.
Why bother to do real research when you can just write a cute little survey, vet it against some other 'validated instrument'. Then labeling your study as "evolutionary psychology" using hand waving and myth to get impact factor?https://t.co/fEZRqgnnMA
Yikes."We propose that this phenomenon represents a (perhaps unintentional) form of structural discrimination, which can lead to underrepresentation and reduced impact of social psychological research done with non-WEIRD samples."https://t.co/JwlekiyeHLhttps://t.co/650OvjEQjr
I think this is sarcasm."We know that the Big Five are not merely phantoms that fall out of a certain analysis of a certain use of language in WEIRD college students, because these traits are reliably correlated with things we care about." https://t.co/SPkYYz6SD4
"Using microbiota-targeted diets to positively modulate gut-brain communication holds possibilities for the reduction of stress and stress-associated disorders, but additional research is warranted" https://t.co/yIBpbu6YxNhttps://t.co/5vBjWIpH7W
I suspect gut microbiota produced GABA is a big player here. https://t.co/HjOaAXaPkT
"Low brain [GABA] concentration in [PTSD] is consistent with most findings in panic and social anxiety disorders. Low GABA associated with poor sleep quality is consistent with the hyperarousal theory of both primary insomnia and PTSD."https://t.co/9vYlp4p2v5
And lipid absorption associated with endocannabinoid production probably plays into a feedback loop to calm the gut when combined with how stomach acid hits TRPV1 like hot peppers.https://t.co/nzGCTFexbzhttps://t.co/2nZ0mxxJph
haha! gut bacteria again. This time impacting brain spasticity and it's relationship with PTSD.https://t.co/PV3L6GPtLk
Trying to cure my mom of her disability.https://t.co/E6F4dJo8Ax