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Will you participate in this experiment and type "Pit Bull Dogs" into Google and share the results?

Asked by Dutchess_III (46813points) January 15th, 2018

Google “Pit Bull Dogs” and share the first result you get.

I got this

Inspired by Barack Obama’s comment on how we create our own reality on David Letterman’s new show on Netflix.

Obama then recounted a science experiment (“not a big scientific experiment, but just an experiment that somebody did during the revolution that was taking place in Egypt”) where a liberal, a conservative and a “quote-unquote moderate” were asked to search for “Egypt,” and Google presented each of them with very different results.

“Whatever your biases were, that’s where you were being sent, and that gets more reinforced over time,” he said. “That’s what’s happening with these Facebook pages where more and more people are getting their news from. At a certain point you just live in a bubble, and that’s part of why our politics is so polarized right now.” Source

It was really hard to figure out what I should suggest we look for. After thinking about it I decided that Pit Bulls are a pretty controversial animal, and it’s likely that most of us have done research on them in some form or another. If anyone has a better idea of what to search for, suggestions are welcome.

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