Tag: King

  • Nation & World

    Mining Facebook data for science

    An organization co-created by Harvard scientists is set to release a massive trove of Facebook data, strictly for research purposes.

    7 minutes
    Rows of office workers working on computers with data streaming.
  • Nation & World

    Small media, big payback

    Researchers found that if just three outlets write about a particular major national policy topic, discussion of that topic across social media rises by more than 62 percent.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Study that undercut psych research got it wrong

    A study last year claiming that more than half of all psychology studies cannot be replicated turns out to be wrong. Harvard researchers have discovered that the study contains several statistical and methodological mistakes, and that when these are corrected, the study actually shows that the replication rate in psychology is quite high.

    11 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Uncertain forecast for Social Security

    A new study has found that the financial health of Social Security, the program millions of Americans have relied on for decades as a crucial part of their income, has been dramatically overstated.

    10 minutes