Sunday 26 September 2021

Video by teenager on TikTok disrupts 4,600 survey studies

Picture of someone filling out survey with three options: smiley face, neutral face, unhappy face

Lots of social scientists use Prolific.co to conduct massive surveys, by paying randos — Amazon-Turk-style — to give their responses to prompts.

But this summer, they started to notice something was weird — they were suddenly getting a wildly disproportionate amount of responses from young women. — Read the rest