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TSI Reading: Making Inferences about Social Media Use 19 Views


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This passage implies that data from social media

(A)demonstrates that social media is a waste of time
(B)is useful for predicting a wide variety of trends
(C)proves that people are happier in the summer months
(D)detects illnesses long before the Center of Disease Control


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All right reading shmoop er's last in the siri's here

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school Right down the question This passage implies that data

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from social media what The social sciences have entered the

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age of data by utilizing them many sorts of written

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language that social media offers through social media facebook and

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twitter is regularly used by more than one seven the

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world population variation moon has been tracked cross seasons and

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used to predict stock market and estimates happiness Additionally search

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patterns on google can detect influence epidemic weeks before the

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cdc confirmed them according to pastor social media data can

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be used to predict everything from health and happiness to

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stock market performance It's therefore safe to say that it's

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useful to social science so the answer is b there

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and we've got a whole bunch of losers roll things

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here were constantly the lectured on the time suck that

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is social media yet but the passage never calls it

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a waste The seven hours we've just been trying to

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craft the perfect instance story however says otherwise although the

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data can be used estimate happiness the text doesn't claim

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that people are happier in this summer like where that

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come from and finally it's google not social media data

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that can detect the epidemics and then they tell us

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where to hide so that's it it's zvi We're uh

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we're shmoop

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