05-19-2013, 01:19 AM
davester wrote:
WRONG! Before jumping to conclusions, perhaps you should have clicked the link and looked at the methodology.
Re-read it.
Not one word about normalizing for INTERNET ACCESS.
All that they are saying is that counties with small populations of "hate-tweeters" are left off the map. So, the dark spaces correspond to a paucity of tweets. And that makes perfect sense since there's also a paucity of Internet access in those same places.
'Can't tweet when you can't get online.
Monica Stephens has been doing this with at least one class every year for the last several years. Every time she makes one of these population maps and claims to have discovered some deeper meaning, she and her school get lots of free publicity. But regardless of what her class is studying, every year the map looks almost exactly the same.
...Which may be the subtle point of it.