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Makes me wonder how much metrics are skewed. Views from people in this state are not views from someone a bit more balanced and happy. Yet society likes to throw bland numbers around.



I would love to see a frequency distribution for Facebook's engagement metrics...


I mean it’s probably just a power law distribution, right?


I'm sure it started that way, but they've been tweaking their drivers for 15+ years at this point.

That's time enough for them to skew their userbase's behavior if they could. And given the amount of money they've thrown at staff, I wouldn't bet against them having shifted it in their favor.




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