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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Popularity Of Words Affects Public Acceptance Of Climate Change
RedOrbit: In an op-ed published last month in The New York Times, anthropologists R. Alexander Bentley and Michael J. O'Brien previewed their study, "Word Diffusion and Climate Science" published in the open journal PLOS ONE. In last month's article, they put forth an excellent explanation of how they studied the popularity of words and terms that rise and fall in the public lexicon. The method they used for their research is an invaluable tool that is open and available to anyone who can find an Internet...
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