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by TylerE 2118 days ago
The group running this is extremely reputable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NORC_at_the_University_of_Chic...

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I'm a UChicago student studying computational social science. I have a couple friends working at the NORC and I can say that, as someone who spends every day reading and criticizing studies done over the internet or with machine learning, the NORC always amazes me with their quality. Every time I get frustrated with some vaguely racist/dehumanizing social science paper I go read whatever is on NORC's home page to calm down.
Why not just wait two months though? The timing makes it impossible to not be suspicious, after all “this is the most important election in the history of our nation.”
Because clearly the point of the study is to look for some sort of correlation between social media engagement and voting activity.

The timing is a feature, not a bug.

There is zero attempt to be coy here. Scroll down to the bottom section where they explicitly reference the election.