Misbeliefs and Biases in Health-Related Searches

Bondarenko, Alexander; Shirshakova, Ekaterina; Driker, Marina; Hagen, Matthias; Braslavski, Pavel

doi:10.1145/3459637.3482141

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“…When looking at politicians' websites alone, the share was 28.9%. In another study, Bondarenko et al (2021) investigated the first 10 organic search results returned by Yandex to popular medical questions. Approximately 44% of the snippets contained incorrect answers.…”

Section: Risk Of Adverse Consequences Of Web Searchmentioning

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Is googling risky? A study on risk perception and experiences of adverse consequences in web search

Häußler

Schultheiß

Lewandowski

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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Search engines, such as Google, have a considerable impact on society. Therefore, undesirable consequences, such as retrieving incorrect search results, pose a risk to users. Although previous research has reported the adverse outcomes of web search, little is known about how search engine users evaluate those outcomes. In this study, we show which aspects of web search are perceived as risky using a sample (N = 3884) representative of the German Internet population. We found that many participants are often concerned with adverse consequences immediately appearing on the search engine result page. For example, 45.2% of respondents are concerned about retrieving incorrect information. In contrast, consequences with a delayed impact are rarely perceived as a risk. Moreover, participants' experiences with adverse consequences are directly related to their risk perception. Our results demonstrate that people perceive risks related to web search. In addition to our study, there is a need for more independent research on the possible detrimental outcomes of web search to monitor and mitigate risks. Apart from risks for individuals, search engines with a massive number of users have an extraordinary impact on society; therefore, the acceptable risks of web search should be discussed.

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Section: Risk Of Adverse Consequences Of Web Searchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is googling risky? A study on risk perception and experiences of adverse consequences in web search

Häußler

Schultheiß

Lewandowski

2023

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“…The authors claim that their reranking models perform well even in non-English languages when fine-tuned in a zero-shot manner. Healthcare decision-making based on a search engine are examined in [16], [17], and some medical search models and datasets are proposed in [18], [19], [20].…”

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Reranking for a Polish Medical Search Engine

Pokrywka,

Jassem,

Wierzchoń

et al. 2023

Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems

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Healthcare professionals are often overworked, which may impair their efficacy. Text search engines may facilitate their work. However, before making health decisions, it is important for a medical professional to consult verified sources rather than unknown web pages. In this work, we present our approach for creating a text search engine based on verified resources in the Polish language, dedicated to medical workers. This consists of collecting and comprehensively analyzing texts annotated by medical professionals and evaluating various neural reranking models. During the annotation process, we differentiate between an abstract information need and a search query.Our study shows that even within a group of trained medical specialists there is extensive disagreement on the relevance of a document to the information need. We prove that available multilingual rerankers trained in the zero-shot setup are effective for the Polish language in searches initiated by both natural language expressions and keyword search queries.

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Behavioral Economics in IR

Liu

2023

The Information Retrieval Series

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Misbeliefs and Biases in Health-Related Searches

Cited by 4 publications

References 37 publications

Is googling risky? A study on risk perception and experiences of adverse consequences in web search

Is googling risky? A study on risk perception and experiences of adverse consequences in web search

Reranking for a Polish Medical Search Engine

Behavioral Economics in IR

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