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The Polack MSgt

(13,159 posts)
Tue Jun 13, 2017, 09:58 PM Jun 2017

What do people ask when noone knows - and what can we learn about America by looking at that data?

Fascinating (if rather fluffy) interview. This caught my eye:

I'm pretty convinced that the United States has a self-induced abortion crisis right now based on the volume of search inquiries. I was blown away by how frequently people are searching for ways to do abortions themselves now. These searches are concentrated in parts of the country where it's hard to get an abortion and they rose substantially when it became harder to get an abortion. They're also, I calculate, missing pregnancies in these states that aren't showing up in either abortion or birth rates.


https://www.vox.com/conversations/2017/6/13/15768622/facebook-social-media-seth-stephens-davidowitz-everybody-lies
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