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| Title |
Books Average Previous Decade of Economic Misery
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|---|---|
| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0083147 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
R. Alexander Bentley, Alberto Acerbi, Paul Ormerod, Vasileios Lampos |
| Abstract |
For the 20(th) century since the Depression, we find a strong correlation between a 'literary misery index' derived from English language books and a moving average of the previous decade of the annual U.S. economic misery index, which is the sum of inflation and unemployment rates. We find a peak in the goodness of fit at 11 years for the moving average. The fit between the two misery indices holds when using different techniques to measure the literary misery index, and this fit is significantly better than other possible correlations with different emotion indices. To check the robustness of the results, we also analysed books written in German language and obtained very similar correlations with the German economic misery index. The results suggest that millions of books published every year average the authors' shared economic experiences over the past decade. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 80 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 15 | 19% |
| United States | 14 | 18% |
| Spain | 5 | 6% |
| Netherlands | 4 | 5% |
| Germany | 2 | 3% |
| Italy | 2 | 3% |
| Rwanda | 1 | 1% |
| Austria | 1 | 1% |
| Mexico | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 31 | 39% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 61 | 76% |
| Scientists | 12 | 15% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 5 | 6% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 3% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 59 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Nigeria | 6 | 10% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | 2% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 45 | 76% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 14 | 24% |
| Researcher | 12 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 12% |
| Other | 5 | 8% |
| Other | 10 | 17% |
| Unknown | 2 | 3% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 14 | 24% |
| Arts and Humanities | 7 | 12% |
| Psychology | 5 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 5 | 8% |
| Linguistics | 4 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 31% |
| Unknown | 6 | 10% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 205. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 November 2016.
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