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Okay next up reading shmoop er's Here we go Question

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According to this passage facebook and twitter are what Big

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yeah that's not an option alright let's read the paragraph

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here The social sciences have entered the age of data

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by utilizing the many sources of written language that social

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media offers through social media such as facebook and twitter

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to regularly used by more than one seventh of the

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world's population Variation and mood has been tracked across seasons

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and used to predict stock market an estimate happiness Additionally

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search patterns on google can detect influence epidemics weeks before

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the senator disease control confirms them Interesting Okay well what

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are our answers here Used by huge percent of the

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world's population Okay well that's a uh well a full

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seventh of the world's pops uses facebook and twitter which

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is a mind boggling number of people for extra curious

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shmoop er's that's upwards of billion people with a b

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social media users So yeah it's got to be a

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used by a huge percentage of the world's population and

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notice how vague that answer is And again when in

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doubt go with vague all right loser bowl here While

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the passage doesn't say these forms social media used more

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frequently than google there's no comparison chart here or that

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they're used to diagnose illnesses and that would be gross

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We don't need pictures of sore throats Foreign news feed

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passage does state that social media can be used to

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predict stock markets but this means that they are useful

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for predicting financial trends So yeah i didn't either It's 00:01:21.777 --> [endTime] a we're done

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