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By: Info Shared Daily » 14 Things Science Has Taught Us About Facebook

Info Shared Daily » 14 Things Science Has Taught Us About Facebook — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:09:42 +0000

[…] study asked Facebook users to answer political questions and say how they think their friends would answer the same questions — and then get those friends […]

By: 14 Things Science Has Taught Us About Facebook | TokNok Multi Social Blogging Solutions

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:31:52 +0000

[…] study asked Facebook users to answer political questions, and say how they think their friends would answer the same questions – and then get those […]

By: President Obama says private sector ‘doing fine’ – as it happened - Part Time Jobs Classifieds

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 21:31:40 +0000

[…] their friends about politics, the study showed, were unaware of the disagreement. So: no fighting. Sharad Goel writes: How well do you know your friends’ political views? According to recent work by Winter Mason, […]

By: President Obama says private sector ‘doing fine’ – as it happened - Mortgage Help For Homeowners

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:46:20 +0000

By: President Obama says private sector ‘doing fine’ – as it happened

President Obama says private sector ‘doing fine’ – as it happened — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:20:51 +0000

By: Bias in Political Beliefs: We aren’t like our friends | Thinking is Hard Work

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:04:34 +0000

[…] Recently I found a study by Sharad Goel, Winter Mason and Duncan Watts described on a blog called Messy Matters, that explains this reaction. Using Facebook as a data frame, the investigators found that we […]

By: Sharad Goel

Sharad Goel — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:56:20 +0000

@ahuri: Thanks for pointing that out — I fixed the link!

By: ahuri

ahuri — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 13:46:52 +0000

Hello,
the link to the paper does not seem to work. I can’t download it!
Cheers

By: Overestimating Political Agreement « Signal/Noise

Overestimating Political Agreement « Signal/Noise — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:50:31 +0000

[…] recent paper by scholars working in Yahoo! Research looked at the extent to which friends on Facebook could accurately predict the degree to which […]

By: Similarity Illusions « Cheap Talk

Similarity Illusions « Cheap Talk — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:44:14 +0000

[…] agree with them on political issues. Notably, even though close friends (so-called strong ties[1]) are in reality more likely to agree with one another than distant friends, people do not […]