>Keep in mind that we had had only one shot at our participants. What would be the impact of favouring one candidate in searches people are conducting over a pe

>Keep in mind that we had had only one shot at our participants. What would be the impact of favouring one candidate in searches people are conducting over a period of weeks or months before an election? It would almost certainly be much larger than what we were seeing in our experiments. Reminds me of http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/streetlight-psychology/ http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/24/streetlight-psychology/ >And in 2015, a team of researchers from the University of Maryland and elsewhere showed that Google’s search results routinely favoured Democratic candidates. Are Google’s search rankings really biased? A greater portion of liberals use social media than conservatives (source: http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/03/12/main-findings-10/ http://www.pewinternet.org/2012/03/12/main-findings-10/) Maybe they organically generate more links?