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The social sciences have entered the age of data by utilizing the many sources of written language that social media offers. Through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, which are regularly used by more than one-seventh of the world's population, variation in mood has been tracked across seasons and used to predict the stock market and estimate happiness. Additionally, search patterns on Google can detect influenza epidemics weeks before the Center of Disease Control confirms them.
According to this passage, Facebook and Twitter are
(A)used by a huge percentage of the world's population
(B)more frequently used than Google
(C)helpful in diagnosing and treating illnesses
(D)not useful for predicting financial trends
Transcript
- 00:01
Okay next up reading shmoop er's Here we go Question
- 00:05
According to this passage facebook and twitter are what Big
- 00:12
yeah that's not an option alright let's read the paragraph
- 00:14
here The social sciences have entered the age of data
- 00:17
by utilizing the many sources of written language that social
Full Transcript
- 00:19
media offers through social media such as facebook and twitter
- 00:22
to regularly used by more than one seventh of the
- 00:25
world's population Variation and mood has been tracked across seasons
- 00:28
and used to predict stock market an estimate happiness Additionally
- 00:31
search patterns on google can detect influence epidemics weeks before
- 00:34
the senator disease control confirms them Interesting Okay well what
- 00:37
are our answers here Used by huge percent of the
- 00:40
world's population Okay well that's a uh well a full
- 00:42
seventh of the world's pops uses facebook and twitter which
- 00:46
is a mind boggling number of people for extra curious
- 00:48
shmoop er's that's upwards of billion people with a b
- 00:52
social media users So yeah it's got to be a
- 00:54
used by a huge percentage of the world's population and
- 00:57
notice how vague that answer is And again when in
- 00:59
doubt go with vague all right loser bowl here While
- 01:02
the passage doesn't say these forms social media used more
- 01:05
frequently than google there's no comparison chart here or that
- 01:08
they're used to diagnose illnesses and that would be gross
- 01:11
We don't need pictures of sore throats Foreign news feed
- 01:13
passage does state that social media can be used to
- 01:15
predict stock markets but this means that they are useful
- 01:18
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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