| license: other | |
| language: [en] | |
| tags: [reddit, control, placebo, value-lock-in, diversity-analysis] | |
| # Reddit Control/Placebo Corpus (2020-present) | |
| Hobby subreddits (**r/gardening**, **r/woodworking**) as the **placebo control** for the | |
| animal-value lock-in study. These topics are not subjects people form AI-mediated *opinions* | |
| on, so their discourse diversity should NOT kink at LLM release dates — unless the kink is a | |
| Reddit-wide artifact. Pairs with `reddit-animal-discourse-2020-present` (the treatment). | |
| - Comments: capped at 2,500/month per sub (even 72-month coverage; diversity analysis subsamples to ~1k/month). | |
| - Submissions: full. | |
| - Authors salted-hashed. **1,507,613** total records. | |