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Ethics of Big Data Analysis : US Election Result Expectations

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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/.../



 


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    I agree with Simon. Many states sent postal ballots to every potential elector (which gave them a bit of additional work to ensure no-one voted both in person and by post) so the elderly have not been disenfranchised. There is not a significant correlation between the states with elderly populations and the election results - if you want to see a much better correlation, look at the states with the highest rates of Covid and the election outcome as there seems to be a pretty clear correlation between high infection rate/republican vote and low infection rate/democratic vote.
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    I agree with Simon. Many states sent postal ballots to every potential elector (which gave them a bit of additional work to ensure no-one voted both in person and by post) so the elderly have not been disenfranchised. There is not a significant correlation between the states with elderly populations and the election results - if you want to see a much better correlation, look at the states with the highest rates of Covid and the election outcome as there seems to be a pretty clear correlation between high infection rate/republican vote and low infection rate/democratic vote.
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