Anonymous ID: 1f8aa5 March 23, 2019, 12:13 a.m. No.5841841   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1850 >>2012 >>2048 >>2091

Google influenced midterm elections; may be cost Republicans seats, study shows

Research psychology fag here, posted several times by others, nom notable, not picked up yet. Researcher Epstein is the real deal. Although he's a Dem, he still published results against his own position. Nice to know there are still honest scientists out there.

 

Excerpt:

First things first - the study was conducted by Dr. Robert Epstein - a San Diego-based Harvard Ph.D. who founded the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. He's also a Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology (AIBRT), a UCSD visiting scholar, and served as editor-in-chief of Psychology Today.

 

He also supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 (just like Google!).

 

Down to the findings:

Epstein and AIBRT analyzed Google searches linked to three highly competitive southern California congressional races in which Democrats won, and found that Google's "clear democrat bias" may have flipped the seats away from Republican candidates. According to the study, at least 35,455 undecided voters within the three California districts may have been persuaded to vote Democrat due to the biased Google search results.

 

Epstein says that in the days leading up to the 2018 midterms, he was able to preserve โ€œmore than 47,000 election-related searches on Google, Bing, and Yahoo, along with the nearly 400,000 web pages to which the search results linked.โ€

 

Analysis of this data showed a clear pro-Democrat bias in election-related Google search results as compared to competing search engines. Users performing Google searches related to the three congressional races the study focused on were significantly more likely to see pro-Democrat stories and links at the top of their results.

 

As Epsteinโ€™s previous studies have shown, this can have a huge impact on the decisions of undecided voters, who often assume that their search results are unbiased. Epstein has called this the Search Engine Manipulation Effect (SEME).

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https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-22/google-influenced-midterm-elections-may-have-cost-republicans-seats-study

Anonymous ID: 1f8aa5 March 23, 2019, 12:21 a.m. No.5841908   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>1951 >>2012 >>2048 >>2091

Anons, last night we were looking at Rachel Chandler's father.

I did not find evidence that was conclusive about who it was. Did find this article which I posted but baked the following bread, so lost track of what happened next. Reposting to refresh peoples' memories. Don't know for sure this Roger guy is the grandfather, even tho we have '''Rachel Guinnness (Tom)" listed as a granddaughter below. Could that be a mistake? Thoughts?

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Roger Carl Chandler

https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/appealdemocrat/obituary.aspx?n=roger-carl-chandler&pid=156735111

 

Roger Carl Chandler passed away peacefully on March 23, 2012 at the age of 85.

 

Roger was born October 19, 1926 in Marysville California, the son of W. Ray Chandler and Grace Johnson Chandler. Roger grew up on the family farm on Rednall Road in Sutter County; family legend has it that he regularly rode his horse to Bridge Street School in Yuba City. He graduated from Yuba City High School in 1944, and at the age of 17 joined the US army.

 

Roger attended UC Davis where he was editor of the 1948 yearbook and received his degree in pomology (the science of tree fruit) in 1949. He returned to Sutter County to begin his career as a farmer.

 

On June 11, 1949 Roger married Lois Jacqueline Kofahl. Roger and Jackie had two sons, Judge Chris Chandler of Yuba City, and Dr. Charles F. Chandler of Los Angeles.

 

Over the course of his career Roger farmed prunes, peaches, almonds and walnuts, pioneering the growing of walnuts in the Feather River river bottoms. He owned a soft water company, a boat business, a real estate brokerage (Roger C. Chandler and Associates) and was involved in real estate development.

 

Roger's commitment to volunteer service was deep. He served as a Cub Scout Pack leader, a member of the Sutter County Grand Jury, Sutter County Board of Education, Yuba-Sutter Fair Board and for many years was an active member and booster of the 4H/ FFA Junior Livestock Committee for the Yuba-Sutter Fair. He was a lifelong member of St. John's Episcopal Church in Marysville.

 

Roger had strong convictions and relished politics. He served on the Sutter County Republican Central Committee in the 1950's and 1960's. He was an alternate delegate for Barry Goldwater at the 1964 Republican National Convention. He was a seven-county campaign chairman for Ronald Reagan's first campaign for Governor in 1968. Roger served two terms on the Sutter County Board of Supervisors from 1980-1988. He was appointed to serve on two statewide boards by two California Governors.

 

Roger enjoyed pheasant and duck hunting, fishing, antique Fords, dominoes, growing vast quantities of backyard fruits and vegetables, and raising animals of all kinds. In what would today be called "the early empty nest phase", Roger briefly had over 20 Welsh ponies which he (with characteristic humor) called "Folly Farms".

 

Together, Roger and Jackie cherished good times with family and friends. They had many travel adventures, from single engine plane trips to El Salvador with Roger's brother Bob, to challenging the Swiss Alps in a four cylinder diesel car. For eleven years, Roger and Jackie lived in Inverness, the site of many fond and formative memories for their six grandchildren.

 

While he seldom spoke of it outside the family, Roger was extremely proud of his family and its background. On his father's side, he was an eleventh generation farmer in this country. He was very proud of his mom's family's more recent immigrant roots and the hardships they overcame. His grandfather, W. F. Chandler, was a long time member of the California Assembly and Senate from Fresno County and his parents were highly respected farmers and dairy operators in Yuba and Sutter Counties. He believed strongly in the dignity of hard work and the blessings that followed a commitment to family and community, whatever the individual's calling. He was delighted by his grandchildren, their families, and the character and promise he saw in each of them.

 

Roger was predeceased by his siblings Robert Chandler of Bend Oregon, Marion Rowe of Davis and Jean Davies of Sacramento, and granddaughter Katherine Reiko Chandler.

 

He is survived by his wife Jackie, sons Chris (Cindy) and Charlie (Becky), grandchildren Carolyn Ebert (Travis), Jessica Sanchez (William), Emily Chandler, Rachel Guinness (Tom), Natalie Chandler, and Michael Chandler, great grandchildren KC, Tatum and Peyton, and many cousins, nieces and nephews.

Anonymous ID: 1f8aa5 March 23, 2019, 12:31 a.m. No.5841976   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun   >>2071

>>5841951

I didn't do a super deep digg, but it's like the father does not exist. If Roger is grandfather, the father would be one of the two sons. But this is not mentioned elsewhere (at least not in passing). Can't do much a digg now, baking next bread, but thought I'd throw it out to see what might be found.