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Here's a statement of the research: places where the Facebook usage was one standard deviation higher than median had a 50% higher than average rate of anti-ref

• tropo 8y ago
  This is clearly a case where "correlation is not causation" must be considered. Suppose that refugees love Facebook. If so, then places with refugees will have more Facebook usage. Anti-refugee violence can only occur where there are refugees. We thus would expect that Facebook usage would be higher in locations with more anti-refugee violence. Another explanation is that old people are less likely to engage in violence and also less likely to use Facebook.