#deweydefeatstruman — Public Fediverse posts

@Natsura

DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN

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#DeweyDefeatsTruman #sample #random #bias

It is nice to see some #FOSS projects decide to ask their communities significant questions before taking major action. The current big example is, of course, whether the project should accept, limit, or ban contributions created with LLMs ("AI").

However, too often those projects try to collect opinions using outside services - like Google forms (or whatever they call it). By doing so, you're instantly cutting off responses from that chunk of your community who are focused on privacy, anti-fascist, anti-billionaire, or various other topics which are hugely represented in the FOSS community in general. So you're collecting responses from a horribly biased sample.

In this case, Google is a pro-fascist, privacy-destroying, gatekeeping, billionaire-controlled USA corporation that is helping to destroy the open web to build its own walled garden a la Apple. They're also a huge pusher of "AI", and are demolishing small sites' business models by stealing their content to create "AI answers" in search without sending any traffic to the sites they're stealing from.

Can you see how asking people whether you should allow LLM contributions via a Google form would skew the results quite badly?

Yes, #Audacity, I'm looking at you today.

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #privacy #security #Google #GoogleForm #LLM #AI #survey #SurveyBias #DeweyDefeatsTruman

argle mumble bargle DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN mumble grumble

#peeve #PetPeeve #DeweyDefeatsTruman #poll #boost #reach #science #statistics

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@shoq

Niggle: it's not research, but it could be interesting #anecdata. Just don't read too much into it.

I've said a few times that all Fedi posts containing polls that say "boost for better sample" (or "research" here, similar) should be required to have one of the response options be "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN".

#DeweyDefeatsTruman #sample #random

@Pepijn

Have sat on several horses.

Pet peeve: "boost for scientific accuracy" - you aren't going to get anything that even slightly resembles a representative sample, even if you look at it through dark glasses after 6 beers.

I have previously said that any post containing a poll and asking for boosts to improve accuracy must have "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN" as one of the poll answers, and I stick by that assertion.

#Dewey #Truman #DeweyDefeatsTruman #statistics #sample #poll #polling

Every #Mastodon / #Fediverse poll that includes the text "boost for larger sample size" should be required to have "Dewey Defeats Truman" as one of the poll answers.

#peeve #PetPeeve #statistics #poll #sample #bias #DeweyDefeatsTruman #SamplingError #SamplingBias