The researchers also make it easy to overlay other datasets to study a range of socioeconomic trends at scale. (sciencedaily.com)
The study, which looked at various cultural indicators — including word usage in books, trends in baby names, and shifts in family structure — suggests that a shift toward greater individualism is systematically correlated with socioeconomic trends, but not with trends in urbanization or environmental demands such as frequency of diseases or disasters. (sciencedaily.com)
What all this information provided was a population - eye view of life in the 19th century, which is exactly what Fogel needed in order to understand broad socioeconomic trends and reach startling conclusions. (discovermagazine.com)