Case Study: Testing Confirmation Bias

It just occurred to me - I have an active experiment going with deleting random external links on Wikipedia, but even though this affects a rough minimum of ~335,445 readers of Wikipedia articles (based on the summed March statistics of the affected articles), I will probably catch far less flak when I post my results on the WikiEN-l mailing list than I have already caught for this post here. Humans!

Normal_Anomaly14y140

It just occurred to me - I have an active experiment going with deleting random external links on Wikipedia,

I object to this more than I object to the experiment in the OP.

1John_Maxwell14y

I agree, the number of people affected by an amateur experiment you perform is a good measure of how much flak you should catch.

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