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Episode 198: The Means of Randomization
Podcast |
Oral Argument
Media Type |
audio
Categories Via RSS |
Education
Philosophy
Society & Culture
Publication Date |
May 28, 2019
Episode Duration |
01:33:21
How would you feel if you found out you were unwittingly the subject of an experiment testing two alternatives? You got A, and another group got B. Many people object to this. But what if neither A nor B was at all objectionable and in fact each is served up at many other places unilaterally and without reason for preferring one to the other? Why should we object to being randomly given A or B for the purpose of testing, when we would not object to having either uniformly and arbitrarily imposed? We are joined again by Michelle Meyer to discuss this problem, made famous recently by Facebook and other A/B testing entrepreneurs. Michelle Meyer’s web page (http://www.michellenmeyer.com), faculty profile (https://www.geisinger.edu/research/research-and-innovation/find-an-investigator/2018/04/04/13/27/michelle-meyer), and writing (http://www.michellenmeyer.com/writing.html) Michelle Meyer et al., Objecting to Experiments that Compare Two Unobjectionable Policies or Treatments (https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/early/2019/05/08/1820701116.full.pdf) Oral Argument 72: The Guinea Pig Problem (https://oralargument.org/72) (guest Michelle Meyer) Special Guest: Michelle Meyer.

How would you feel if you found out you were unwittingly the subject of an experiment testing two alternatives? You got A, and another group got B. Many people object to this. But what if neither A nor B was at all objectionable and in fact each is served up at many other places unilaterally and without reason for preferring one to the other? Why should we object to being randomly given A or B for the purpose of testing, when we would not object to having either uniformly and arbitrarily imposed? We are joined again by Michelle Meyer to discuss this problem, made famous recently by Facebook and other A/B testing entrepreneurs.

Special Guest: Michelle Meyer.

How would you feel if you found out you were unwittingly the subject of an experiment testing two alternatives? You got A, and another group got B. Many people object to this. But what if neither A nor B was at all objectionable and in fact each is served up at many other places unilaterally and without reason for preferring one to the other? Why should we object to being randomly given A or B for the purpose of testing, when we would not object to having either uniformly and arbitrarily imposed? We are joined again by Michelle Meyer to discuss this problem, made famous recently by Facebook and other A/B testing entrepreneurs.

Special Guest: Michelle Meyer.

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