New Study Finds That Most Redditors Dont Actually Read the Articles They Vote On

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I didn't write the article, but am a co-author on the paper mentioned, and wrote the browser plugin that gathered the data.

This Motherboard article made the front page of Reddit today.

I don't think this is a very surprising result, just going by the title.

LOL

The funny thing is that there are so many comments that say "what about X?" or "they didn't control for Y!", but that they would know otherwise if they actually read the article and/or the paper!

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