Source: www.ibtimes.com - Saturday, November 29, 2014
Social media may provide a fast and cheap way for human behavior analysts to gather data, but researchers at McGill University in Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say many of the studies generated from that data are flawed. The researchers note thousands of research papers annually are based on such data, everything from predicting the next summer blockbuster to blips in the stock market.
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Social media may provide a fast and cheap way for human behavior analysts to gather data, but researchers at McGill University in Montreal and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh say many of the studies generated from that data are flawed. The researchers note thousands of research papers annually are based on such data, everything from predicting the next summer blockbuster to blips in the stock market.
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