Oct
11
Maybe the new index to watch is Google searches for “help for single mothers.” Here is the trend for that search, along with one of the searches that most closely follows its trend, “walmart jobs.” The temporal correlation between these two — the amount they rise and fall together over time — is .96 on a scale of 0 to 1. You can see the full list of 100 searches most correlated with “help for single mothers” by following this link. (via Google Index of Poor Mothers’ Pain » Sociological Images)
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