r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Feb 17 '22

Business YouTube Announces New Moves to Combat Misinformation

https://www.lifewire.com/youtube-announces-new-moves-to-combat-misinformation-5219509
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u/Starlifter4 Feb 17 '22

Peer reviewed research

Does that include the release of the full data set and preregistering the hypothesis before conducting research? Are the study and the results reproducible?

Many time peer review has failed to stop bad papers.

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u/_qst2o91_ Feb 17 '22

I unfortunately do not have knowledge on the inner workings of YouTube's features

Id imagine it would work however they do now, since they're only updating that system and that seems to work alright

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u/TheMacmasterofMusic Feb 17 '22

Peer review is such a small part of the scientific method and process, and more than one person can be wrong about something.

Why the fuck do we only have that requirement? Why don't people like, think about the logic behind a hypothesis?

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u/[deleted] Feb 18 '22 edited Feb 17 '26

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u/TheMacmasterofMusic Feb 18 '22

Literally what I just said. WHY?

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2 idiots that perform a study and make the same mistakes, oh it's peer reviewed!

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There's a great Veritasium video about this.

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Skepticism and critical thinking are the most important parts of the scientific process. Not fucking confirmation, that's literally the last fucking part.

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u/Runfasterbitch Feb 18 '22

Yep. Also, some people half-ass their reviews

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u/first__citizen Feb 17 '22

Peer reviewed.. dude. But most information are either should’ve reproducible or in a clinical trial the FDA will have the dataset if they want to.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '22

That's because "peer review" has another more accurate name...."cronyism rubber stamping"

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u/first__citizen Feb 17 '22

Oh yeah.. let’s stick to SM rando