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Assistant Professor of Economics Markus Möbius researches these kinds of social networks for a living. Last year, Möbius was searching for a cost effective way to see how friends learn from one another, so he contacted Moskovitz to use TheFacebook as a dataset...
...infant mortality in Iraq at 108 deaths per 1000. The Hopkins survey reported only 29. With such depressed “before” death rates, it’s no wonder the survey showed 100,000 civilians had died. Moreover, the researchers used an easily-to-manipulate dataset of 7,868 people to represent a country of over 25 million. I smell another fallacy: hasty generalization...