
Ep306 - Gerd Gigerenzer | How to Stay Smart in a Smart World
Talks at Google
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Does Culture Impact Algorithm Recommendations?
SW asks, does culture impact the way people interact with their algorithmic recommendations? Where some cultures prefer absolutes, others might prefer consensus or something that resonates with historical data. And we know from study that for instance in YouTube, the recommender system seems to push people into more extreme videos and more unscientific videos because that are those that are the more exciting ones. We could change in the business model from pay visit data to pay visit money could solve part of this problem.
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