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The Digital Flynn Effect: Complexity of Posts on Social Media Increases over Time
Parents and teachers often express concern about the extensive use of social
media by youngsters. Some of them see emoticons, undecipherable initialisms and
loose grammar typical for social media as evidence of language degradation. In
this paper, we use a simple measure of text complexity to investigate how the
complexity of public posts on a popular social networking site changes over
time. We analyze a unique dataset that contains texts posted by 942, 336 users
from a large European city across nine years. We show that the chosen
complexity measure is correlated with the academic performance of users: users
from high-performing schools produce more complex texts than users from
low-performing schools. We also find that complexity of posts increases with
age. Finally, we demonstrate that overall language complexity of posts on the
social networking site is constantly increasing. We call this phenomenon the
digital Flynn effect. Our results may suggest that the worries about language
degradation are not warranted
“from brain all the way to heart”: The 2008 \u3cem\u3eLion and the Unicorn\u3c/em\u3e Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
Messages in a Bottle: The 2007 \u3cem\u3eLion and the Unicorn\u3c/em\u3e Award for Excellence in North American Poetry
Studies on in vitro and in vivo immunological properties of heterologous anti-myeloma and anti-lymphocyte sera in mice
The labor injunction in Massachusetts
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityThe labor injunction has proven to be a very important means of control of labor in the United States. It is peculiarly American device in use, although its origins are in the English common law. The purpose of this undertaking is to trace the history and development of the labor injunction in its various aspects as it grew in Massachusetts. In addition to this accumulation of data some evaluation is attempted, although this is extremely difficult for lack of a norm
A survey and summary of some recent studies concerned with the possible relationships of tobacco, cigarette smoking and certain disease conditions
Thesis (Ed.M.)--Boston Universit
PRODUCTION, PRICE AND RISK FACTORS IN CHANNEL CATFISH FARMING
The effects of several production/management, price and risk factors upon channel catfish profitability are analyzed with a multiperiod mixed-integer linear programming model. Factors analyzed include pond size and optimal stocking rates, alternate levels and trends in catfish prices, pond production losses and level of family consumption withdrawals. Model results indicate that channel catfish offer the potential to significantly increase farm rates of return while providing an avenue of intensive farm growth, without expanding the land base of the farm. However, the long range financial success of the firm was very sensitive to several of the management and risk factors examined.Production Economics, Risk and Uncertainty,
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