Sentences with phrase «of voter behavior»

The improvements included using larger fonts, lists, headers, white space, simple language, and logical organization.29 In a study of voter behavior, Reilly and Richey found that increasing language complexity on ballots made voters more likely to skip ballot questions.30 Rogers and Brown found that subjects who received «high - impact» instructions complied with those instructions at a significantly higher rate than the group that received instructions in the «low - impact» style.31 Finally, McGlone and Tofighbakhsh found that readers presented with two phrases with identical meaning more readily accepted and believed the version of the phrase that rhymed.

And unlike most studies of voter behavior, which «only diagnose problems in democratic competence,» Healy and Lenz have found a cure, Berinsky says.

They're also excellent predictors of voter behavior inside that particular district.

Not exact matches

Sandberg's post came less than a week after The New York Times and The Observer of London reported that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company created by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, gathered users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

Cook's and Musk's comments follow The New York Times and The Observer of London's report that Cambridge Analytica, a political data company launched by Stephen Bannon and Robert Mercer, collected users» Facebook data and claimed it could influence the behavior of American voters.

The only goal that matters is to get your messages in front of highly influential people (think digital multipliers and megaphones) who are tightly connected to significant (and fairly sizeable) niches of active and desirable individuals whose actions and attitudes they can directly influence (amplification) and whose behaviors as consumers, voters, or other cohort members you are looking to change and channel into actual results.

Cambridge Analytica used the Facebook data to help build tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of the London - based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job.

The calls for greater scrutiny followed reports on Saturday in The New York Times and The Observer of London that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that it claimed could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.

They think voters are fed up with the chaos in the White House and Trump's behavior, and that will matter more when voters enter the polls than the level of the stock market or how many jobs there are.

CNN: My Take: Catholic bishops» election behavior threatens their authority Vincent Miller, Gudorf Chair of Catholic Theology and Culture at the University of Dayton., argues that «By putting voters in a «with us or against us» bind, some of America's bishops have risked eroding their own authority.»

By summing up the behavior of the individual voters, we can then see how these numbers affect behavior at the state level.

With the «swamp of criminality and unethical behavior in Albany» and «voter disgust» at unprecedented heights, the time for reform is now, before the end of the legislative session on June 20th.

With a «chief scientist» specializing in consumer behavior, an «analytics department» monitoring voter trends, and a squad of dozens huddled at computer screens editing video or writing code, the sprawling office complex inside One Prudential Plaza looks like a corporate research and development lab — Ping - Pong table and all.

I don't think we see all that much from either of these men that would put them in a position where they would have earned a second chance to redeem themselves from their selfish behavior and deserve a second chance by New York voters.»

All this begs the question: How does Cambridge Analytica then connect up to 5,000 data points of consumer behavior with American voter files to build their profiles?

They need to find some other outlet, and, if they think the behavior they're exhibiting is at all impressive or will convince voters Carl possesses the sort of level - headed decision making capabilities New Yorkers are looking for, they're dead wrong.»

The firm had secured a $ 15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Voter intimidation is any concerted effort or practice by an individual or group to coerce the voting behavior of a particular class or demographic of voters.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

The Reform Party of New York State represents the interests of voters who are concerned with out - of - control spending, growing budget deficits, an unsustainable national debt, as well as gross mismanagement in government and unethical behavior from elected representatives.

It was an online movement that begot offline behavior, including producing youth voter turnout that may have supplied the margin of victory.

Weeks of provocative and outlandish behavior have hurt presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's standing in two new national polls of registered voters, which showed him falling further behind Clinton.

The contacts took place as Cambridge Analytica was building a roster of Republican clients in the United States — and harvesting the Facebook profiles of over 50 million users to develop tools to analyze voters» behavior.

Earlier Monday, Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, blasted Trump for his use «use of anti-Semitic imagery,» adding that his behavior «should give voters major cause for concern.»

Should they again fail, voters must make a resolution of their own: to hold accountable at the voting booth not only the wrongdoers, but those who aid and abet their behavior from the state's halls of power.»

I believe that the vile behavior of New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has shown us, the taxpayers and voters, that these politicians care only about themselves.

A 54 percent majority of voters surveyed said that while they believed de Blasio had done favors for his political donors, they didn't think the behavior was illegal, but merely unethical.

A Behavior Research Center survey released Thursday indicates that 64 percent of likely Arizona Republican primary voters support McCain, with19 percent backing former Rep. J.D. Hayworth, five percent supporting Jim Deakin, a Tea Party activist, and 12 percent undecided.

«This allows an easy way to model an «open system» in which few actors (the parties) interact with many (the voters), and we can show how voters direct the behavior of the various parties.»

Following this largely unexpected result, some explanations pointed to the role of a voter's age, gender or education in their voting behavior while others wondered whether the «Leave campaign» might have mobilized xenophobic attitudes by emphasizing a fear of foreigners.

No one understands the transformative power of data analysis better than Democratic consultant Ken Strasma, who helped propel Barack Obama into office by devising a mathematical model that predicts the political behavior of nearly every eligible voter.

One of the hardest parts of Oscar watching is the inevitable truths that come out every year about the behavior of Academy voters, who are more like your average movie - goer than they are like film critics.

«It's not a stretch, then, to imagine a rollback of federal policies that support high academic standards and quality school options could shift behavior among these voters on a broader scale.»

In an early study of the sentencing behavior of Pennsylvania judges, who run in retention elections after being elected to office, Huber and Gordon (2004) found that criminal sentences are significantly longer the closer the judge is to facing the voters.

Cambridge Analytica, a London - based political consulting firm, has been accused of using ill - gotten Facebook data to influence voter behavior in the 2016 election.

Alexander Nix, the CEO of the London - based voter profiling company Cambridge Analytica — which harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users without their permission to analyze their voter behavior — has been suspended from his job.

The firm had secured a $ 15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm hired by President Trump's 2016 election campaign, gained access to information on 50 million Facebook users as a way to identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Now, concerns about sharing every aspect of life on social media are coming to a head amid reports that a political consulting firm hired by President Donald Trump's campaign allegedly used ill - gotten Facebook data in an effort to influence voter behavior.

Nix dismissed critics who questioned the company's claims of predicting voter behavior.

Mr. Wylie was interested in using inherent psychological traits to affect voters» behavior and had assembled a team of psychologists and data scientists, some of them affiliated with Cambridge University.

Such models predicting an individual's attitudes or behavior are typically situational — many voters» likelihood of casting a ballot dropped off significantly from 2012 to 2014, after all, and their odds of supporting a Republican might change if the choice shifted from Mitt Romney to Scott Brown.

And there is no evidence that Cambridge Analytica has solved the practical challenges of applying psychometrics to voter behavior.

The contacts took place as Cambridge Analytica was building a roster of Republican clients in the United States — and harvesting the Facebook profiles of over 50 million users to develop tools to analyze voters» behavior.

Reports on Saturday from the New York Times and the Observer of London said that Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm founded by former Trump aide Stephen K. Bannon and wealthy Republican donor Robert Mercer, had used the Facebook data to develop methods that could identify the personalities of individual American voters and influence their behavior.

The company, founded by Stephen K. Bannon and Robert Mercer, a wealthy Republican donor who has put at least $ 15 million into it, offered tools that it claimed could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior.

Cambridge Analytica, which rose to prominence through its work with Mr. Trump's 2016 election campaign, has found itself confronting a deepening crisis since reports this past weekend in The New York Times and The Observer of London that the firm had harvested the data from more than 50 million Facebook profiles in its bid to develop techniques for predicting the behavior of individual American voters.

The New York Times and the U.K. - based Observer / Guardian reported over the weekend that Facebook has suspended the account of Cambridge Analytica, the firm founded by Steve Bannon with funding from famed Republican donor Robert Mercer with the purpose of building «tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior,» according to the Times report.