Comment by Zac Cucinotta (zac-cucinotta) on A Bat and Ball made me Sad · 2023-10-05T04:17:25.750Z · LW · GW

This study was done via Google ads that block content, which means the people taking the study were thinking "How do I get this ad to go away so I can watch my video". 

Comment by Zac Cucinotta (zac-cucinotta) on A Bat and Ball made me Sad · 2023-09-11T15:28:53.214Z · LW · GW

I think there should be basically no update from this study, and most others using apps like Mechanical Turk and Google Consumer Surveys, which is what this study used. Consumer surveys are paid ads where you have to fill out the survey before getting to do what you actually want to do. People are incentivized to complete these as soon as possible and there is little penalty for inaccuracy. I would bet that this doesn't reproduce if correct answers are incentivized, or even if it's run on volunteers who aren't being stopped from what they want to do to take the survey.