Subprime Attention Crisis

Tim Hwang

...the accuracy [of data profiles used for advertising] was often extremely poor. The most accurate sets still featured inaccuracies about 10% of consumers, with the worst having nearly 85% of the data about consumers wrong.

In 2014, Google released a report suggesting that 56.1 percent of all ads displayed on the internet are never seen by a human.

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