Sentences with phrase «on voter behavior»

And given the uncertainty in our estimates — a concept most Americans now understand thanks to last week's election results — we can not rule out the possibility that private schools have a modest impact (positive or negative) on voter behavior.

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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.

It, too, ranks voters from zero to 100, but this one doesn't assess voters» characteristics so much as prioritize them based on their susceptibility to the campaign's efforts to modify their behavior.

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.

Given all this curious behavior, the voters in Clarkstown should take a long, hard look at Councilwoman Lasker's track record before blindly voting on row A in November.

John Antonakis and Olaf Dalgas hypothesized that because «naïve» ratings based solely on facial appearance correlate with actual voter behavior, voters and children might have a lot in common.

«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.»

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.

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.

The emphasis on psychology differentiates it from traditional data firms that specialize in «microtargeting,» which tracks consumer data and behavior to target voters; their method was was, wrote Bloomberg's Sasha Issenberg, «the most audacious new analytical innovation foisted on American politics this year.»

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 document goes on to list a dozen products and services, among them «psychographic microtargeting,» «addressable TV microtargeting,» «multi-agent system voter behavior simulation,» and «message testing & development.»