About the Conclusions in the Facebook "ideologically diverse news" study
Channel: Christian Sandvig
Date: 2015-05-15

This video explains that, due to the research design, it is not appropriate to say that "individual choices more than algorithms limit exposure to attitude-challenging content" or that "compared to algorithmic ranking, individuals’ choices about what to consume had a stronger effect." Both of these quotes are from the Facebook study published in Science.

Context: http://socialmediacollective.org/2015/05/07/the-facebook-its-not-our-fault-study/

Thanks to Cedric Langbort for pointing out that "baseline error" is the clearest way of explaining this.