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Paging l've been participating in an activist campaign recently that's beern speaking out against impropriety by members of the press. As a result, that press has derided the campaign as a "hate campaign", as a sort of "don't look at us, look at them" sort of thing They've employed the use of STATISTICSto show how we're firmly and definitively a "hate campaign" As a professor of statistics yourself, can you lend me your professional opinion to the following pieces? https://archive.today/3Q8yo https://medium.com/@cainejw/an-actual-statistical-analysis-of-gamergate dfd809858f68 Like Comment-Share for this one I can already tell how the info is flawed since they literally only take into account how many tweets that person got, and nothing else 29 mins - Like The criique in the 2nd link is spot on. The formal name of this type of research is content analysis which has a very well-established methodology for defining what concepts (variables) you're measuring, the sampling plan and stat analysis., and most were violated, most likely ignored if even known. 19 mins - Like Ihaks, doc. Just now - Like

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Gamergate (harassment campaign) Article Talk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For other uses, see Gamergate (disambiguation). Gamergate or GamerGate (GG)[¹] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][³] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015.[1][4][5][6] Beginning in August 2014, Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry, most notably feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian and video game developers Zoë Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others.[7][8][9][10][11] The harassment campaign included doxing, r--- threats, and death threats.[12][13][14] Gamergate proponents ("Gamergaters") stated that they were a social movement, but lacked well-defined goals, a coherent message, and leaders, making Gamergate difficult to define.[15][16][17] Gamergaters claimed to promote ethics in video games journalism, claimed to be protecting the "gamer" identity, and opposed what they asserted as "political correctness" in video games.[18][19][20][21][22] Read Date Target Gamergate, online harassment campaign in 2014-15 that targeted women in the video game industry. The attacks were attributed largely to white male right-wing gamers who railed against the rise and influence of women and feminism in the industry. Gamergate served as a recruiting tool for the growing alt-right movement and helped spur the online “Pizzagate" conspiracy theory, which soon spawned the wider QAnon conspiracy movement. …………………………....…..……….…..... Attack type Victims Motive View source Inquiry XA 28 languages ✓ Perpetrators Internet trolls, particularly from 4chan, Internet Relay Chat, and 8chan View history Tools ✓ Gamergate August 2014 - 2015 Women in the video game industry See all media Online harassment campaign Zoë Quinn, Anita Sarkeesian, Brianna Wu, and others Gamergaters created conspiracy theories falsely accusing Quinn of an unethical relationship with video game journalist Nathan Grayson.[23][24][25] More broadly, they alleged unethical collusion between the press and feminists, progressives, and social critics.[17][26] [27] These claims were widely dismissed as trivial, conspiracy theories, baseless, or unrelated to actual issues of ethics in gaming and journalism.[28] [29][30] Gamergate supporters frequently denied that the harassment took place, falsely claiming it to be manufactured by the victims.[31][32] Misogyny anti-feminism anti- progressivism FBI investigation Gamergate has been described as a culture war over cultural diversification, artistic recognition, feminism in video games, social criticism in video games, and the social identity of gamers.[28][33] [34] [35] Many supporters of Gamergate opposed the increasing influence of feminism and so-called "social justice warriors" on video game culture. [2][36] Gamergate led figures both inside and outside the gaming industry to focus on methods of addressing online harassment, ways to minimize harm, and prevent similar events. [37] [38] [39] [40] Gamergate has been viewed as a contributor to the alt-right and other right- wing movements.[21][41] Video game developer Brianna Wu
Jalen Hutchinson Studied Culinary Science at Culinary Institute of America (Graduated 2014). Author has 304 answers and 740.1K answer views. 5y Not that I care that much either way, but it did expose a lot of corrupt game developers and game journalists. X Journalists would make claims of people like Anita Sarkeesian "playing video games all her life" when she openly admitted many times she is not a gamer and only starter recently (when it wasn't for an interview). Various developers trading sex or money for good reviews got exposed, journalists who accepted got exposed. People became a bit more critical about supporting a game just because the developer has a victim complex stating tat their game could have only failed because of sexism, instead of their own poor developing skills. What really sealed the deal was opposition often faking their own harassment. Anita sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn have been caught multiple times screenshotting "harassment" while showing that the harrasser's account name in the login. Or when someone called the police to help Sarkeesian against a "very real threat" she was posting about, only for police to find the harasser's messages were coming from her IP address. I just want honesty from the community, and the lies were mostly exposed by the "dreaded" gamergate. 1.3K views • View upvotes 26
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As someone who's had to do statistics till I puked in school I've got to say: that rebuttal is well done.
I STILL want to know what they count as postive and negative exactly. If I said: "I don't like Nathan Grayson because of his attitude" is this already negative? Or do I have to say that he's an ass? Even that is harmless, really.

Another thing: WHY for crying out loud is Quinn still relevant? And are those REALLY the only 3 women in video gaming? Obviously not but in the original article no other female devs were mentioned and I'm 100% positive there are some active on twitter….did THEY get harassment? The probability is very low.
The whole statistic they made is crap and when you create these statistics you got to cite your sources and detail the way you make the statistic.

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I was about to point out the bullshit of using a statistical study where the value of a variable (sentiment) is determinated by subjectivity, without even specifying the criteria used , but thankfully the second article had me covered.

Here are the links mentioned btw

Article: https://archive.today/3Q8yo
Rebuttal: https://medium.com/@cainejw/an-actual-statistical-analysis-of-gamergate-dfd809858f68

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