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autokad on June 23, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: We Have No Idea If Online Ads Work

I had guest lecturers from chief data scientists of companies that purchase these adds for companies targeted to users. I was told most companies do not want to pay for the controlled experiments, and many times even when they are run for 'free' they do not want to know the answer. i was surprised at the latter

cbsmith on June 23, 2014 [–]

It's incredibly infuriating but makes perfect sense once you understand the motivations of all the parties involved.

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