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/u/audobot and /u/rwbj should be aware that /r/discusstheopenletter and /r/blackladies gamed the survey:
https://www.reddit.com/r/blackladies/comments/321fce/reddit_is_asking_for_your_feedback_please_give/
Making the potential for selection bias even greater. (almost a certainty)
They appear to be the only subreddits to do so as well.
https://www.reddit.com/domain/reddit-survey.typeform.com/
Comment by [deleted] at 24/08/2015 at 08:21 UTC*
13 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Sounds like /u/IrbyTremor broke the site, AGAIN!
I think that's ban worthy! She's only mad because everyone at the Bernie rally didn't support her like good white goys.
Comment by [deleted] at 24/08/2015 at 13:26 UTC
9 upvotes, 0 direct replies
What's funny about it is that black women probably represent a very small portion of the reddit community.
Comment by EtherMan at 24/08/2015 at 06:38 UTC
8 upvotes, 0 direct replies
Actually, since the selection intent was for it to be random, which has potential for selection bias, and then going on and having specific communities repost the survey, then there's no longer any potential for bias... We KNOW there is a bias at that point. It becomes a proven fact that there then is a selection bias. The only question that is not yet determined in regards to that is, what effect that bias had. And the thing about bias is that it's impossible to know, hence why studies with bias, are outright thrown away by anyone that is actually trying to find the truth of it.
Comment by audobot at 24/08/2015 at 22:11 UTC
2 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Ah yes - we did see that when the survey was going on, and checked to see what was going on. Thanks for keeping an eye out. Fact is, neither of those groups has as many eyeballs as something like r/askscience. So while they may have gotten more voices in, and those were included in the scales, they're still some pretty big scales.
The additional responses they may have elicited also didn't seem to match any particular pattern, which was interesting. It seems that people weren't being told how to vote, just that there was a place they could vote. Not quite how I'd define "gaming."