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Adverse effects of information personalization on human learning

2022-09-24

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<p>Many online content providers use "personalization" algorithms to generate recommendations that are individually fine-tuned for users’ interests. However, these algorithms have also been criticized because tailoring content to specific users necessarily restricts the diversity of content, leading to reinforcement of existing beliefs. Here, we investigated the degree to which personalization can hinder learning...

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Literature Corpus work
0b1e072e-bc62-570a-862b-d79904f32f25
DOI
10.31234/osf.io/yahvf
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