Ethics of Big Data Analysis : US Election Result Expectations

Syamantak Saha:

The Trump Camp is understandably disappointed with this unexpected election result.

However, it can be fairly expected that a lot of their elderly supporters in some of their established constituencies, may not have had access to voting at the time of Pandemic, mainly due to the elderly being more susceptible to the virus and choosing the conservative decision to not take the added risk of life. Here, it is not by choice, but by loss of freedom due to Pandemic, such citizens may have been deprived of their fundamental rights. Was the loss of this conservative sentiment amongst the elderly - and its representation in the cast ballots, the cause of such unexpected defeat?

Big Data set comparisons would suggest that some of the states with high elderly population, obtained an unexpected result from the US Election. Hence, as per the value of Big Data Analysis, should such identified discrepancies be worth further appeals - or should such data be ignored as a human observation fallacy? Indeed, the future of such Big Data technologies are in these important ethical considerations.

uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm

www.nbcnews.com/.../president-results

www.prb.org/.../

 

If somebody chose not to vote, then they chose not to vote.  Nobody took their rights away from them.  They could have sent in a postal vote if they had wanted to.


You cannot call an election based on how you think somebody who didn't vote would have voted.  If you did that, then whoever is in charge of running the election would be deciding for themselves who was the winner every time.

Syamantak Saha:

The Trump Camp is understandably disappointed with this unexpected election result.

However, it can be fairly expected that a lot of their elderly supporters in some of their established constituencies, may not have had access to voting at the time of Pandemic, mainly due to the elderly being more susceptible to the virus and choosing the conservative decision to not take the added risk of life. Here, it is not by choice, but by loss of freedom due to Pandemic, such citizens may have been deprived of their fundamental rights. Was the loss of this conservative sentiment amongst the elderly - and its representation in the cast ballots, the cause of such unexpected defeat?

Big Data set comparisons would suggest that some of the states with high elderly population, obtained an unexpected result from the US Election. Hence, as per the value of Big Data Analysis, should such identified discrepancies be worth further appeals - or should such data be ignored as a human observation fallacy? Indeed, the future of such Big Data technologies are in these important ethical considerations.

uscode.house.gov/statviewer.htm

www.nbcnews.com/.../president-results

www.prb.org/.../

 

If somebody chose not to vote, then they chose not to vote.  Nobody took their rights away from them.  They could have sent in a postal vote if they had wanted to.


You cannot call an election based on how you think somebody who didn't vote would have voted.  If you did that, then whoever is in charge of running the election would be deciding for themselves who was the winner every time.