Computer scientists from the University of Warwick are using Twitter to predict the outcome of the UK general election and believe their forecasts could be more accurate than traditional opinion polls.
Computer Sciences
May 7, 2015
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Soon anyone can conduct public opinion polls to drive issues that are important to them, using a new open source tool being developed at Sweden's KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2014
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As the number of U.S. casualties rose in Afghanistan, reporters filed more stories about the conflict and those articles grew increasingly negative about both the war effort and the military, according to a Penn State researcher. ...
Social Sciences
Sep 15, 2014
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(Phys.org) —About half of American adults say they're more thankful this Thanksgiving than they were in previous years, according to a new UConn Poll. Only 6 percent say they're less thankful, while 44 percent say they ...
Social Sciences
Nov 28, 2013
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The upcoming UN report on climate change is not likely to rattle US deniers of global warming who hold sway in the halls of power, experts say.
Environment
Sep 21, 2013
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A University of British Columbia study of American attitudes toward climate change finds that local weather – temperature, in particular – is a major influence on public and media opinions on the reality of global warming.
Environment
Feb 5, 2013
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Though domestic issues tend to motivate most U.S. voters, the war in the Middle East may be the dominant issue in mind for an increasingly important voting block: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans.
Social Sciences
Jan 9, 2024
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Even though Americans shared the experience of living through a global pandemic, their individual attitudes towards it differed and evolved—sometimes dramatically.
Social Sciences
Jul 23, 2021
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Most public opinion polls correctly predicted the winning candidate in the 2020 U.S. presidential election—but on average, they overestimated the margin by which Democrat Joe Biden would beat Republican incumbent Donald ...
Political science
Nov 18, 2020
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Sentenced or not, a politician prosecuted for statements made does not risk electoral loss due to a criminal case. However, the trust in politics drops, reveals international Vidi research from Professor of Political Science ...
Political science
Sep 10, 2020
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