Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
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Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
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Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#2That's interesting, but thankfully they only had 395 tweets so I wonder if you can get something really meaningful with a set of data so small. Looks like there's some correlation with Rommey's voting states though.
Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#3This could have been interesting, but with a sample size of 395, I'm afraid the numbers are very unreliable.
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Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#5That's interesting, but thankfully they only had 395 tweets so I wonder if you can get something really meaningful with a set of data so small. Looks like there's some correlation with Rommey's voting states though.
After reviewing their list of "Top 10 Floating Sheep Maps" that appears in the sidebar, it's a reasonable assumption that this is a site with a certain world view. The readers who agree with that world view (say, /r/politics) won't particularly care about the statistical sample size as long as the results reinforce their beliefs.
Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#6That's interesting, but thankfully they only had 395 tweets so I wonder if you can get something really meaningful with a set of data so small. Looks like there's some correlation with Rommey's voting states though.
Of course it's correlated with the red states; when the person they didn't want to see win won, they said anything they could to degrade him. Certainly the n word is the easiest and most offensive word to throw out, but that doesn't necessarily imply racism. Though I'm not defending their use of that extremely offensive word, it's highly disingenuous to equate it to racism.
Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#7This could have been interesting, but with a sample size of 395, I'm afraid the numbers are very unreliable.
If this was a full scientific study, I'd agree. Lets keep in mind that it isn't, and it's just a reflection of what was actually said.
It isn't fair to draw conclusions from this such as "Alabama is a racist!?!?", but the data do still say something.
Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#8That's interesting, but thankfully they only had 395 tweets so I wonder if you can get something really meaningful with a set of data so small. Looks like there's some correlation with Rommey's voting states though.
Of course it's correlated with the red states; when the person they didn't want to see win won, they said anything they could to degrade him. Certainly the n word is the easiest and most offensive word to throw out, but that doesn't necessarily imply racism. Though I'm not defending their use of that extremely offensive word, it's highly disingenuous to equate it to racism.
Nonsense.
Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#9That's interesting, but thankfully they only had 395 tweets so I wonder if you can get something really meaningful with a set of data so small. Looks like there's some correlation with Rommey's voting states though.
Of course it's correlated with the red states; when the person they didn't want to see win won, they said anything they could to degrade him. Certainly the n word is the easiest and most offensive word to throw out, but that doesn't necessarily imply racism. Though I'm not defending their use of that extremely offensive word, it's highly disingenuous to equate it to racism.
Can of worms = opened. The "n word" does imply racism. I'm not going to write a book about it, but I'll just put that out there for you to think about.
Re: Mapping Racist Tweets in Response to President Obama's Re-election
#10Racism is deplorable, but weren't the threats to kill Romney if he won the election equally deplorable?
http://www.examiner.com/article/obama-supporters-on-twitter-...
What is any less hateful about them?
"I'll personally f*****g kill Romney if he try's some dumb nazi s**t f**k that (sic),"
The problem I have with the lack of objectivity on racism is that it's actually counter-productive to solving the problem. Raising the alarm about one type of racism while turning a blind eye to other types of irrational hate smacks of hypocrisy.