GamerGate - Consulting a professor of statistics

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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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Cloudst4r

Oct 25, 2014 at 08:37PM EDT

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.

w+1 ftw

Oct 25, 2014 at 08:12PM EDT

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