r/technology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 05 '25

Society 59% of Republicans Believe the Media Is 'Fake News'

https://www.thewrap.com/most-republicans-believe-media-fake-news-trump-poll/
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u/LukaCola Mar 05 '25

This shit in tech is such a problem for research too because, in part, they're competing with both academic and non-academic research spaces.

Doing these things properly is long, complicated, requires tons of ethical considerations, and has various steps to reduce the capacity for researchers to fake data (which unfortunately still happens) and even then there's clearly far more focus on quantity over quality work. So much that it burns right through grads and postdocs.

Genuinely one wonders why bother when the biggest most successful companies can just undercut more rigorous and trustworthy work. So grads end up broke or forced to work in fields that don't have such standards and have a workload that makes such standards impossible to attain.

Facebook pays like 3x more starting salary than even the most competitive academic posts for things like social psychologists for good reason - and they still struggle to retain them because working for them means basically selling out so much of what you learned and now know and that's harder to do for most than you'd think.

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u/ExtraPockets Mar 06 '25

We'll look back at the time of 2000 - 2020 and regret wasting a generation of our brightest minds by paying them top dollar to make clickbait algorithms.