more tweets, more votes – it works for google searches, too!
The phenomena reported in the original More Tweets/More Votes paper keeps getting replicated. Social Science Quarterly has a new paper that replicates the MTMV model by regressing Senate election vote shares on Google search traffic. The paper is called “Google Insights and U.S. Senate Elections: Does Search Traffic Provide a Valid Measure of Public Attention to Political Candidates?“, written by C. Douglas Swearingen and Joseph T. Ripberger. Here is the key scatter plot:
Looking forward to more of this research.
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I am hard at work on ‘More Snapchats, More Votes?’ and ‘More Grindrs, More Votes?’.
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bork
February 14, 2014 at 4:13 am
@bork: Yo, I’m cutting out the middle man, bro. Check this out: “More Votes, More Votes? Likely Voters’ Candidate Preferences as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior.” This is going to be revolutionar…wait…what? They’ve done that already…WHO has done that already!?! Oh well, back to “More Tinder, More Chlamydia?”
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Chris Trachomatis
February 14, 2014 at 12:08 pm