This morning I came across a super interesting story involving analytics in the NY Times:
Thanksgiving Got Shorter Following the 2016 Election, Study Says. You Can Guess Why.
The authors used cell phone location data and voting data to come to their conclusion. If you've got the time to read it, I'd be curious to hear what you think.
Very interesting! Definitely caught my eye they also looked at political advertisement influence, as I do feel that was a significant contributing factor to the 2016 election.
ReplyDeleteMy own extended family has definitely experienced less family time post-2016 election. In one instance, someone outright declined to visit with someone else simply because they had voted differently. That same person unfriended me on Facebook because I made a single general comment about the biased nature of a particular news source.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not sure the headline is accurate. Thanksgiving was shorter for families of divergent politics, but to truly claim it had to do with the 2016 election, they would need to compare it to Thanksgiving 2015 and before. It may be that divergent political families always spend less family time together than like minded ones, regardless of the year.
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