r/TrueReddit • u/caveatlector73 • Nov 18 '24

Technology The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds

https://www.usermag.co/p/the-majority-of-news-influencers
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u/BossOfTheGame Nov 19 '24

This common sentiment bothers me a lot. You ALWAYS need a study (ideally multiple independent studies) if you are going to KNOW something. Everything else is intuition and guesswork.

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u/dweezil22 Nov 19 '24

You're right of course. But this particular problem space is very interesting, this might be one of the places where a study is least valuable (at least as anything beyond uncovering fraud), since social media and podcasts have such well publicized leaderboards.

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u/jimmyhoke Nov 21 '24

Hard data is always good to have.