Can science prove a social construction? Meaning, RTs don’t necessarily ≠ endorsements.
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@trentmkays if you go with Popper science can't prove, only falsify. (?) But I bet you could demonstrate that usually RT-->endorsement1 reply 1 retweet 0 likes -
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@aspasia_project Ah, well, that’s a different question entirely. How would you evaluate such data? Might be interesting project. :)
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@trentmkays I'm thinking something like... maybe large-scale Tweet scrape with text RTs and sentiment analysis of text to left of RT text1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@trentmkays or sentiment analysis of tweets adjacent (temporally?) to new-style RTs w/o comments. Requires you buy sentiment analysis, EHHHH
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