You may have seen, recently, that it has become a kind of informal method for discovering popular social trends to enter the beginning of a sentence into a Google search box and see how the engine completes the expression. The idea is that Google will come up with the most likely completions based on its "knowledge" of what people generally intend when they start a search expression.
This method was used very effectively in an ad campaign by UN Women a few weeks ago when they entered phrases like "women should" and "women need to" and got horrible completions like "stay at home," "be slaves," and "be in the kitchen." Here's a Guardian article about that experiment. http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/oct/22/google-autocomplete-un-women-ad-discrimination-algorithms So, I decided to try the same thing with "psychology is". You should give it whirl. I don't think you'll find the results to be all that surprising, but they are a bit disheartening nevertheless. Regards, Chris ....... Christopher D Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M6C 1G4 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=29768 or send a blank email to leave-29768-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
