This one makes my head hurt. Like Viola Swamp, Miss Nelson’s evil twin who returns with a sinister “Not so fast!”, Drew Conway at NYU and I take a look at that new report on Twitter and find a lot of claims and data being thrown about. (“Children, please!”) We searched for a strong link between claims and data. Let’s just say Miss Nelson might not be the only thing missing. Here’s our take on it: http://bit.ly/7J9o3
Thanks for the link to your thoughtful critique and also for pointing out the original study, which I hadn’t seen. Both very interesting with lots of good comments posted to them. Curious to know whether/how the authors of the Twitter study responded to your points.