In the seventeen years since Twitter was founded, social scientists have published millions of papers about it. Twitter is perhaps the best-studied instance of digital media. And most everyone seems to have thought that this was a fine thing to do: we could study Twitter with the standard methods of social science, like we would American elections, or international trade.
Very interesting. It aligns with a conversation I had recently with Dr. Lawrence Eppard of the Connors Forum, Shippensburg University. On my Outrage Overload podcast, sharing and discussing Social Sciences research is a core element. These meta-science questions are important to keep it legit.
Very interesting. It aligns with a conversation I had recently with Dr. Lawrence Eppard of the Connors Forum, Shippensburg University. On my Outrage Overload podcast, sharing and discussing Social Sciences research is a core element. These meta-science questions are important to keep it legit.
Great piece. So good, I will be assigning as a reading to a course I co-teach on the uses of SM in psychological research.
Thank you! That’s very gratifying to hear, I hope your students find it useful
I don't think prediction markets work as advertised for elections. They do about as well as polls, but that's because the participants have seen the poll results. https://johnquiggin.com/2007/11/27/polls-pundits-and-punters/
In particular, prediction markets don't seem to pick surprises before the polls do https://theconversation.com/betting-on-brexit-stakes-high-but-the-big-money-backs-remain-61318