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"50% of people who wouldn’t recommend reddit cited hateful or offensive content and community as the reason why."
I beg to differ: First, although their statement does zoom in to get a large statistical number, it is still *correct* (it is a statistically precise statement); moreover, there are good reasons for focusing on this segment. First, a small core of non-recommenders provides information by proxy on non-users' general views/attitudes towards the site: they are the big fish that the administrators are interested in.
Second, it demarcates the extent of the problem, if you apply the intuition that besides this minority segment there is a spectrum of less unhappy users whose experiences could be helped, or in other words a networking effect tends to propagate instances of harassment. I think these several considerations shed some light on why this slice is more critically important.
I'm unable to follow the flow of your second argument, which ends with ".........". Non-endorsement versus dissatisfaction do not have to align to provide useful information.
So is it damned lies, or not giving their general claims the benefit of doubt? It's certainly important to question the rigor of the survey and the quality of the inferences, but looking at your reasoning I didn't something that would suggest to me it's a bad idea to curb online harassment at the level of individuals. So do you think my criticisms of your analysis were accurate?
note: Anyone replying to this comment, I expect you to have read both mine and the original posters' in full. If there is anything that was not clear on my part, I will happily explain. I hope this to be a focused discussion of statistical interpretation of the administrator's assertions. I will not be very tolerant of low-quality responses.
Comment by [deleted] at 15/05/2015 at 16:25 UTC
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Comment by Psionx0 at 17/05/2015 at 19:28 UTC
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First, a small core of non-recommenders provides information by proxy on non-users' general views/attitudes towards the site: they are the big fish that the administrators are interested in.
No it doesn't. It says nothing about the general population outside of reddit. In fact, it says nothing about the general population within reddit. These results can not be generalized and used to give a picture of non-reddit users.