Comment by IgorPartola
4 days ago
Have you ever wondered why most studies on humans use college students as test subjects? The answer is that they are easy to survey. Obviously though that can skew results quite a bit because the population is really not all that representative of the general public.
This product will do the same thing: it will help narrow the field of candidates to those who are easy to locate. I guess people who do marketing might like this because look high quality online survey results! And the bias is hidden well enough to keep your job! But the reality is that this will affect the results in a meaningful way.
For example, my ISP doesn’t support IPv6 so my entire home network is served by IPv6 provided by Hurricane Electric via protocol 41. So depending on what this service does with it I would likely be disqualified since my IPv4 is in a different state than my IPv6.
Long story short, cool tech demo and product I would personally avoid using or recommending.
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