These results are what Liberals/Dems and socialist were afraid of guys!!
Black Unemployment Rate Lowest in 17 Years...
Single-family housing starts, permits hit 10-year high...
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These results are what Liberals/Dems and socialist were afraid of guys!!
Black Unemployment Rate Lowest in 17 Years...
Single-family housing starts, permits hit 10-year high...
Silver noticed that the areas where Trump performed best made for an odd map. Trump performed well in parts of the Northeast and industrial Midwest, as well as the South. He performed notably worse out West. Silver looked for variables to try to explain this map. Was it unemployment? Was it religion? Was it gun ownership? Was it rates of immigration? Was it opposition to Obama? Silver found that the single factor that best correlated with Donald Trump’s support in the Republican primaries was that measure I had discovered four years earlier. Areas that supported Trump in the largest numbers were those that made the most Google searches for “nigger.””
Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are
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Listening to this audiobook. Can’t say I am surprised by this fact.
Why would somebody besides a rapper or a black comedian do a google search for "nigger"?
It showed up on Obama’s election night. Huge spike in search volume for that term in these areas in connection with “President” and similar terms.Originally Posted by DONW
There is no correlation of that word with rap, as it almost always appears as “nigga” in that context.
Comparing Obama’s performance in these districts versus other democrats showed a 4% swing in the negative direction.
You believe everything you read on those liberal sites, don't you? That's such an ignorant post.
That was not from a liberal site. It was from a book about data mining and what it tells us about ourselves.
Does data mining always play the race card?
The Trump factoid was only one of many interesting things about this book. Most of the book is talking about how looking through anonymous data captured by google and porn sites reveals a more accurate depiction of what people think than surveys because of the various biases and lack of incentive of surveys. With regards to the most recent election, it also talked about how google data better predicted Trump’s victory than the surveys. But, again, the Trump factoids are a very minor part of the book.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/review/...=UTF8&cursor=1
This is all about predictive power of data in its various forms. The stories about American Farrow, sexuality, debunking of many Freud theories, and education were all entertaining aspects of this book.
But, yeah, Trumped tapped into racist sentiment held by a larger percentage of the population than that which was predicted by surveys, and that was critical to his victory. Doesn’t mean that you are racist if you voted for him, but that had a lot to do with why he won.
That's actually a racist post Guisslapp!
Then again I could see blacks using that term to google with on election night so who knows.
Independents and disenfranchised democrats in 10 key states allowed Trump to beat the wicked witch.
Blacks however do vote in a 98% block. But this election wasn't about race; and neither should have the last two been about race.
President Trump has delivered once again! Tax reform has passed the US Senate and it WILL become the law of the land. We'll now be free of the horrible individual mandate in Obamacare. Freedom of choice is truly something for every American to rejoice. What a Christmas gift for us all. Merry Christmas everyone!
They changed the way it is pronounced not the way it is spelled. Just because somebody says Dat instead of That doesn't mean the spelling is changed.
Look up some rap lyrics on the Internet. It almost always appears as “nigga” or “niggas”. Besides when people are looking for a rap song, that is not a very useful search term.
The point of the data mining was to look for trends in the data that correlated. Search for the term “nigger” did show the correlation with underperformance of Obama in his elections and they were key districts in key states that swung the Trump election. The data also showed a higher percentage of racism than surveyors expected. Point being that people are far more honest to google than they are to surveyors for at least several reasons.
Another interesting story was that of American Pharoah and how is owner Zayat tried to sell him and buy other horses before he won the triple crown. Zayat hires Seder as a consultant to pick out 5 other horses to buy. After Seder studied all the horses, he cane back to Zayat and said that they could not recommend buying any of the horses and that instead he must do whatever it takes to buy his own horse back from the auction - Seder’s data predicted he was a 99.6% horse. A horse of the year, probably a horse of the decade. This data was not based on pedigree. The book does reveal the two key data points that Seder’s data predicted was relevant. Seder had been collecting all sorts of data on horse for years, BTW and had dissected and measured all sorts of things for past horses and correlated all of these things against performance.
Another interesting antecdote showed that Louisiana women are in one of the top 3 states for women using a particular word in google after typing “I think my husband is ___”
Care to guess what Louisiana women are most likely to type in place of the blank?
gay?
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