The Social Dilemma Quiz Total points 19/19

12. Social media became available on mobile devices in 2009. Since that year, the suicide rate among girls ages 15-19 has increased by ___________ percent.

70

8. According to Aza Raskin, what does Facebook do with the data it collects?

Builds models that predict users' actions

10. According to Tristan Harris, if something is a tool, it genuinely is just sitting there waiting patiently. If something is not a tool it ___________. *

Demands things from you, seduces you, and manipulates you

13. Social media became available on mobile devices in 2009. Since that year, the suicide rate among girls ages 10-14 has increased by by ___________ percent. *

151

7. Shoshana Zuboff says that in order to be successful in business, you have to have great predictions, and great predictions begin with one imperative, which is ___________. *

A lot of data

11. True or False: In the documentary, social media is portrayed as something that isn't and cannot be addicting. *

False

17. True or False: When performing a Google search and typing "Climate change is ..." into the search bar, users will see the same auto-complete results no matter where they live. *

False

19. True or False: According to Cathy O'Neil, AI has the capability to know truth. *

False

16. According to Cathy O'Neil, algorithms are ________ embedded in code. *

Opinions

3. According to Aza Raskin, because advertisers — instead of people who use social media— pay for social media platforms, advertisers are the customers and social media users are________________. *

The thing that's being sold

18. True or False: According to an MIT study, fake news on Twitter spreads six times faster than true news. *

True

4. According to Tristan Harris, the classic saying is "if you're not paying for the product, then___________

You are the product

15. How much has processing power increased, roughly, from the 1960s to today? *

About a trillion times

6. Jaron Lanier states, "It's the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own___________ and ___________ that is the product." *

Behavior; perception

9. According to Tristan Harris, pulling down and refreshing a timeline on your phone is comparable to what addictive activity? *

Gambling

14. Gen Z is the first generation that started social media use ___________. *

In middle school

5. The "business model" of companies like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube is to ___________. *

Keep people engaged on the screen

1. While working for the Gmail team at Google, Tristan Harris realized that ___________. *

Never before had 50 designers — 20- to 35-year-old white guys in California —made decisions that would impact 2 billion people.

2. According to Roger McNamee, in the first 50 years of Silicon Valley, the tech industry made products such as hardware and software and sold them to customers, but in the last 10 years the biggest companies in Silicon Valley have been in the business of___________. *

Selling their users