Social media based forecasting techniques are very similar to traditional polls and surveys in many ways, except that they leverage much larger sample sizes in real time and with more limited data distortion. Using social media and alternative on-line datasets to forecast elections worked well in the 2016 US and 2017 French Elections as ZettaCap’s […]
Obama Approval Rating, Social Desirability Bias
Election 2016 Social Desirability Bias / Trump Shaming: Obama Approval Rating Social Desirability Bias influences politics in many ways. Though ‘Trump Shaming’ has received the most attention, this issue as it relates to politics is much larger. It directly impacts support for the different political parties, policies, and politicians to a […]