In praise of experiments

Today, the excellent Neuroskeptic writes about a new study investigating which US states are most suicidal. The interesting twist was the form of the data: Google searches. It's an interesting study and an interesting use of Google searches, but what struck me was Neuroskeptic's closing thoughts. Over the past couple of years there's been a flurry of studies based on analyzing Google and Twitter trends. What's interesting to me is that we're really in the early days of this, when you think […]