Data collection through social media fraught with inbuilt biases

http://socialnetworkingnews.org/data-collection-through-social-media-fraught-with-inbuilt-biases/

Though it is believed that a social network could represent a fair sample size for collecting data sets but the researchers claim that no social network accurately represents any specific community.

But the fact is that scientists have been using data collected from social media and publishing papers based on their findings. This means that what the scientists thought was an accurate estimation which could be published was actually a specific kind of bias based on incomplete information.

Source: www.delhidailynews.com

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