The Pew Research Center recently released a report on the internet's effect on millenials. The report notes that Teens and young adults brought up from childhood with a continuous connection to each other and to information will be nimble, quick-acting multitaskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and who approach problems in …
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A recent study used Twitter text to track people's moods throughout the day. Here's how the study was covered by wired.com. The journalist explained that: Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count, a text analysis program that quantifies the emotional content of statements, Golder and co-author Michael Macy analyzed a total of 509 million tweets generated …
The Gallup organization published the results of a recent poll on caregivers. The poll used a sample of people who are caring for another person in their family. It reported that most of them (7 out of 10) are taking care of a parent or another elderly person. The report indicated that caregivers spend on …
Soon after the great earthquake and tsunami in Northeast Japan, an article appeared on the CNN website about disaster preparedness in the United States: Is “duck and cover” still the best we can do? This article reports an online poll conducted by CNN on people’s confidence in U.S. disaster preparedness. It reports that 80% of …