That is sort of bizarre. I'm surprised they found that high of a correlation.

Also interesting is that they were trying to gauge market trends by using "emotional" types of words (“friendly,” “peeved,” “active,” “on edge” and “panicky"). It'd be interesting to see their data on how different factors affected overall emotions. Or maybe an overall study on how to predict people's emotions, and aggregate emotions on the Internet.

#1069, posted at 2010-10-19 16:57:38 in Indiscernible from Magic