@enlytend Did you research the authors first? I usually don't care to dig deep when I see a biased study, it's self evident, but since you are so insistent I don't read or pay attention I have done so.
Mathematical modeling ? Polls? they all are guesstimates anyway. At the origin. The Authors politics are mixed in. They are not some unbiased reporters, this is slanted just like I stated before- an agenda, free publicity for more $$$$ to fund this pseudo-science.
Ok, so here is the main author:
https://www.oii. ox. ac.uk/people/dr-vidya-narayanan/
https://uk.linkedin. com/in/vidya-narayanan-a82aa94 appears on her resume she cannot hold a real job in private industry (Probably excuse is she is female), evidently prefers being an academic.
https://www. ft. com/content/fbf8ab4c-e41d-11e7-97e2-916d4fbac0da and she says Brexit was fixed. But says the Russian's had time to prepare to mess with the US election. lol.
Vidya Narayanan, a researcher at the Oxford Internet Instituteโs computational propaganda project, said that its report showed there was no โsignificant Russian activityโ. She suggested one reason might be that,
unlike the US presidential election, Russia did not have much time to prepare for the Brexit referendum.
"Fake news โ or what the researchers call โjunk newsโ โ may have had far more influence on the Brexit referendum, Ms Narayanan argued."
http://vidhyanarayanan .com /2016/09/ apple-iphone-and-the-law-of-diminishing-marginal-utility/
"An innovation that can let people think of it not just as the shiny device, but as a smart host of an โIntelligentโ means that can help them at home, at work,
at their relationships"
"and intelligent Chatbots that could help you better than many humans."
has a gift bot on her website:
http://vidhyanarayanan. com/ gifter-chat-bot/
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Next is Vlad.
http://www. vlad43210 . com/
He seems to think statistical extrapolation is fine.
"While
data requirements for RDS analysis are minimal"
http://www. respondentdrivensampling .org/
Respondent-driven sampling (RDS), combines "snowball sampling" (
getting individuals to refer those they know, these individuals in turn refer those they know and so on) with a mathematical model that weights the sample to compensate for the fact that the sample was collected in a non-random way.
" RDS represents an advance in sampling methodology because it resolves what had previously been an intractable dilemma, a dilemma that is especially severe when sampling hard-to-reach groups, that is, groups that are small relative to the general population, and for which no exhaustive list of population members is available. This includes groups relevant to public health, such as drug injectors, prostitutes, and gay men, groups relevant to public policy such as street youth and the homeless, and groups relevant to arts and culture such as jazz musicians and other performance and expressive artists."
RDS has also been used by the CDCโs Global AIDS Program to study injection drug users (IDUs) in Bangkok and IDUs and prostitutes in Vietnam, and it has been used by Family Health International, the largest non-profit agency in international public health, in more than a dozen countries, including Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, Egypt, Honduras, India, Kosovo, Mexico, Nepal, Vietnam, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea and Russia to study gay men, IDUs and prostitutes. Consequently, though less than a decade old, it has been more than fifteen countries.
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Mr. unbiased here:
Bence Kollanyi
https://twitter.com/bencekollanyi
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Lisa Maria Neudert- doctoral student.
https://www.youtube. com/ watch?v=WG1LfX9nE2M
her first 10 seconds she states "we don't know what we are talking about" "Brexit happened", "Donald Trump happened".... hmmm no bias. I cant watch more than 30 seconds. Trump hater.
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Great study. LOL. Limited data, major extrapolation, we will use math to prove our point about public opinion, and best of all, we need more grant money to further our endeavors of nonsense and academic waste.
