Using social media for behavioral studies is cheap, fast, but fraught with biases
Thursday, November 27, 2014 - 14:00
in Mathematics & Economics
The rise of social media has seemed like a bonanza for behavioral scientists, who have eagerly tapped the social nets to quickly and cheaply gather huge amounts of data about what people are thinking and doing. But computer scientists at Carnegie Mellon University and McGill University warn that those massive datasets may be misleading.