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  1. "The other study from Science looked at why those chatbots were so persuasive to begin with. It concluded that the more persuasive a chatbot was, the least factually accurate it was."

    Nothing to worry about. Ignore the Cambridge Analytica history. Don't worry about GROK. #NothingToWorryAbout

    New studies show that AI can influence voters more than campaign ads
    sfgate.com/politics/article/ai

  2. Is it valid to say 40% of American police officers perpetrate domestic violence?

    After half an hour digging through empirical #research I think I can confidently say "no." Why? Because we have no real idea how much DV is perpetrated by cops. Because nobody can really study it with solid methods. Because (IMO, anyway) a lot of scholars are kind of scared of #cops .

    One guy testified for Congress in 1991, and he gets cited a lot, but his #ResearchMethods were not perfect. Then the rate of good research on this went *down* for the next 30 years.

    Lots of opinions, "perceptions of...", etc., but `` numbers? I'm currently not finding any I trust a whole lot. One lit review (2016) found estimates of #DomesticViolence rates from 5% to 40%. Another article just said "Probably about the same as the general public," after clearly misreading a couple of previous estimates.

    Anyway, nobody knows how much domestic violence police commit, and it sort of feels like the police want it to stay that way.

    #SocialScience #statistics #unknown #NothingToWorryAbout