Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by z_zetetic_z 1706 days ago
"In 2018 an AdNews study established that on average, Facebook algorithmically assigns 357 interests per user, out of which 134 were rated as ‘accurate’."

Ha ha ha! Ha ha, ha ha ha! Ha ha! What a joke!

2 comments

And I imagine variability to be huge in this case. Also average may not 'mean' much as fat tails may cause it to look better/worse that what it actually is.
So < 50% wow.