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I would imagine that it's an incomplete data set. There are probably societal factors, at all points in the spectrum, that limit FB use. Also, will we get a nu
by fortythirteen 9y ago
I would imagine that it's an incomplete data set. There are probably societal factors, at all points in the spectrum, that limit FB use.
Also, will we get a number showing how much addictive FB use correlates to economic status? I have a feeling the corporate benefactor wouldn't allow that.
- FrederikET 9y agoI agree i hope at least they use more data sources for the study. Personally, i'm too lazy to update my information like my current job and so on, so my data would be totally wrong.
- chrissnell 9y agoAlso: Facebook is a very incomplete and often inaccurate view of our lives. I assume that most regular users create their Facebook timeline as an idealized, curated mental facsimile of their lives, filtering out real inadequacies, exaggerating stories that might make them look more wealthy, busy, free, etc. Perhaps they're accounting for this but I'm not really a fan of doing social science based on a data set that's more fantasy than scientific measurement.
- chibg10 9y agoIt depends on what questions you're trying to answer. My intuition tells me that predicting socioeconomic status with Facebook's data would probably be reasonably successful, and you could look at feature importance from that. If they're trying to test every theory that Munoz came up with in 4 years of brainstorming or w/e though, then I think they'll likely find it's an insufficiently complete dataset.