Studies in revealed preference - Masterminds versus exploiters.

Speaking of hypocrisy (see earlier post.) Here is the New York Times' different framing for the same action.

The first is from June 20, 2013.


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The second is from a couple of days ago.

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The same action - scraping and mining user data from Facebook. In one instance it is the work of masterminds and in the other it is the work of exploiters.

This is a failure of reporting and an example of revealed preference.