In this podcast, I invite people from various paths of life to discuss their field of work and how they got to where they are.
Robin is a Data Scientist and a Machine Learning Engineer with academic background in Statistics.
New episode every other week.
In this podcast, I invite people from various paths of life to discuss their field of work and how they got to where they are.
Robin is a Data Scientist and a Machine Learning Engineer with academic background in Statistics.
New episode every other week.
In this episode, I talk to Dominik Presl who currently works in the field of misinformation and disinformation as an analyst, researcher and advisor.
(01:25) - What do you do
(04:40) - What is misinformation and disinformation and what isn't
(09:39) - Sources of disinformation and misinformation
(18:15) - Finland’s resilience to misinformation and disinformation
(20:19) - Tackling mis/disinformation
(27:12) - Change of attitude towards the lab leak theory
(31:53) - For-profit organizations and their role in mis/disinformation
(38:50) - Power of a large number of weak predictors (please see Reference 1)
(41:02) - Open source software
(41:57) - Thought experiment to make algorithms more public to fight mis/disinformation
(43:43) - Examples of innovative solutions to tackle misinformation and disinformation
(45:50) - On biases and opinion confirmations
(50:47) - Incentives in the private sector being misaligned with what is the best for the society
(55:18) - Regulation to align incentives of private companies and the society
(58:38) - How to measure level of mis/disinformation
(60:32) - Why measuring level mis/disinformation is so hard
(01:10:05) - Dominik’s path to the field of misinformation
(01:18:00) - Dominik’s path to studying Modern Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford
(01:23:56) - How I discovered data science
(01:32:20) - Why I liked statistics so much
(01:37:20) - Data manipulation used for misleading
(01:39:14) - Why taking statistics classes at university
(01:41:47) - What's needed to work in mis/disinformation research/analysis and general advice
(01:49:37) - Dominik’s decision making mindset
(01:54:19) - Dominik’s future plans
(02:00:56) - Contacting Dominik
Dominik's Linkedin
Dominik's Twitter
In this episode, I used the term "group think", which is completely confusing and wrong. I was not aware of the meaning. Nevertheless, what I was saying is correct, I believe. Please see this document I made to explain further the phenomena I was referring to using a hypothetical example and the Central Limit Theorem- Google Docs Link
