To continue from Josh Tucker’s discussion . . .
I posted an entry (“Voting patterns of America’s whites, from the masses to the elites”) both here and at the sister blog.
From the Monkey Cage: 51 tweets, 19 likes.
From Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: 15 tweets, 66 likes.
An odd non-monotonicity. I’m not on twitter or facebook and have no hypotheses here.
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You are on Twitter, by the way: https://twitter.com/#!/StatModeling.
Today’s xkcd was apparently timely: http://xkcd.com/1034/
H1a: Twitter is the network of choice for sending out links to academic research.
H1b: The volume of tweets to a blog post is a function of overall traffic to the blog.
H2: Readers of GelmanBlog (being social scientists and/or stats geeks) are more likely to have a close network of Facebook friends who either read GelmanBlog or are predisposed to find its content interesting.
H3: People retweet interesting links from Matthew Yglesias.