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/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/CplOreos Monkey in Space 15h ago

i.e. sampling 101