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    How to break regression

    Regression models are a cornerstone of modern social science. Yet social scientists can run into a lot of situations where regression…

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    Methodology

    Data in this study came from two main data sources: 1) analysis of Facebook posts from a set of 30 science-related pages based on data downloaded from the public Facebook Graph API from Jan. 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017, and 2) human content analysis coding by Pew Research Center staff of a random selection […]

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    Methodology

    Data in this study came from two main data sources: 1) analysis of Facebook posts from a set of 30 science-related pages based on data downloaded from the public Facebook Graph API from Jan. 1, 2014 to June 30, 2017, and 2) human content analysis coding by Pew Research Center staff of a random selection […]

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    5. Key experts’ thinking about digital life and individuals’ well-being in the next decade

    Following is a collection of comments by several of the many top analysts who participated in this canvassing: We will soon interact with digital technologies less frenetically Kenneth Cukier, senior editor at The Economist, wrote, “Many people are frazzled by the always-on internet, but this is a feature of our embryonic understanding of how to […]

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    Sources Shared on Twitter: A Case Study on Immigration

    An analysis of 9.7 million tweets reveals that news organizations played the largest role in which content was linked to in discussions about immigration compared with other information providers.

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    Crossing the Line: What Counts as Online Harassment?

    Americans agree that certain behaviors – like direct personal threats – constitute online harassment. But they are more divided on others, such as sending unkind messages or publicly sharing a private conversation.

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    3. Few sites linked to in immigration-related tweets explicitly stated a political ideology or ‘anti-establishment’ focus

    Another question around the mix of information providers available on the web today is outward political alignment: the degree to which sources align themselves directly with a particular party or ideological agenda. To help answer this question, researchers examined whether each site in the News Organizations and Other Information Providers categories labeled themselves as conservative […]

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    Q&A: How Pew Research Center identified bots on Twitter

    For a recent study on automated accounts and Twitter, we had to answer a fundamental question: Which accounts are bots and which accounts aren’t? Read a Q&A with Stefan Wojcik, a computational social scientist at the Center and one of the report’s authors, on how he and his colleagues navigated this question.