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    <abstract>Status is widely used to incentivize user engagement online. However, visible status indicators could inadvertently bias online deliberation to favor high-status users. In this work, we design and deploy a randomized experiment on the ChangeMyView platform to quantify status biases in deliberation online. We find strong evidence of status bias: hiding status on ChangeMyView increases the persuasion rate of moderate-status users by 84% and decreases the persuasion rate of high-status users by 41% relative to the control group. We also find that the persuasive power of status is moderated by verbosity, suggesting that status is used as an information-processing heuristic under cognitive load. Finally, we find that a user’s status influences the argumentation behavior of other users they interact with in a manner that disadvantages low and moderate-status users.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Status Biases in Deliberation Online: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on ChangeMyView
%A Manzoor, Emaad
%A Jo, Yohan
%A Montgomery, Alan
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F manzoor-etal-2022-status
%X Status is widely used to incentivize user engagement online. However, visible status indicators could inadvertently bias online deliberation to favor high-status users. In this work, we design and deploy a randomized experiment on the ChangeMyView platform to quantify status biases in deliberation online. We find strong evidence of status bias: hiding status on ChangeMyView increases the persuasion rate of moderate-status users by 84% and decreases the persuasion rate of high-status users by 41% relative to the control group. We also find that the persuasive power of status is moderated by verbosity, suggesting that status is used as an information-processing heuristic under cognitive load. Finally, we find that a user’s status influences the argumentation behavior of other users they interact with in a manner that disadvantages low and moderate-status users.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.474
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.474
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.474
%P 6351-6363

Markdown (Informal)

[Status Biases in Deliberation Online: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on ChangeMyView](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.474) (Manzoor et al., Findings 2022)

• Status Biases in Deliberation Online: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on ChangeMyView (Manzoor et al., Findings 2022)

ACL

• Emaad Manzoor, Yohan Jo, and Alan Montgomery. 2022. Status Biases in Deliberation Online: Evidence from a Randomized Experiment on ChangeMyView. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 6351–6363, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.