[A Study] combined smartphone-location data from more than 10 million Americans with precinct-level election results to quantify the impact of partisanship and political advertising on Thanksgiving dinners in 2016, on the heels of the presidential election. Among their findings: Democrats shortened their visits to Republican households by between 20 and 40 minutes; Republicans cut their time with Democratic hosts by 50 to 70 min; and mismatched families from areas with high political ad exposure spent even less time together.
I'm not sure what's more scary, that such intrusive data is so easily available or that extreme politics is dividing families so deeply.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 11.6 ms ] threadI'm not sure what's more scary, that such intrusive data is so easily available or that extreme politics is dividing families so deeply.
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