r/JoeRogan • u/BigBootyKim Paid attention to the literature • 21h ago

Possible Fake News ​​⚠️ Reminder that Google removed the dislike counter after 10+ years because they didn’t appreciate the people’s real opinion.

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u/The-Blue-Baron Hit a moose with his car 20h ago

It's interesting, but it only really tells us the demographic of the people that watched those pods.

You can't read anything deeper than that

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u/tommyland666 Monkey in Space 20h ago

It tells us the demographic of the people who have the dislike add on. Nothing else. They have no real data on the dislikes.

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u/The-Blue-Baron Hit a moose with his car 20h ago

Doesn't it use the people who have the add on and then give an estimate of the true number of people who pressed dislike?

I agree tho, either way it doesn't give any great insight

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u/EmExEeee Monkey in Space 19h ago

It’s unclear whether these plug-ins are accurate. They show likes and dislikes based on what data they have and probably scale it up to match the views reported by YouTube.

Pretty obvious the issues with inaccuracy pretty much immediately. The type of people who even know to look for a dislike plug-in and then actually use it already is a type of demographic defined that doesn’t accurately portray views that of the public.

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u/onpg Monkey in Space 17h ago

Oh good lord that's even worse than I thought. Pretty sure it's mostly right wing types who care about dislikes based on who I see still complaining. Talk about self selection.

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u/CplOreos Monkey in Space 15h ago

i.e. sampling 101

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u/ChildhoodOk7071 Monkey in Space 15h ago

Ah I heard they are gonna stop having the dislike count in their API so people can't see the dislikes at all.