Startling Revelation! Researchers Discover That People Say "Love" on Valentine's

[mandy]

They Needed A Study to Tell Them That? part II  :

...researchers for Professor Maarten de Rijke at the Informatics Institute have been recording words used by bloggers, in an attempt to find interesting or unusual patterns. What revelations did the team's MoodViews software unearth?

The team discovered that the LiveJournal label "drunk" becomes increasingly popular each weekend. And around Valentine's Day, "there is spike in the numbers of bloggers who use the labels 'loved' or 'flirty', but also an increase in the number who report feeling 'lonely'."

It gets better.

The team also noticed that on the weekend of the publication of the most recent Harry Potter book, bloggers used "words like 'Harry', 'Potter', 'shop' and 'book'," PhD student Gilad Mishne reveals...

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/21/...ger_study/

related topic:
They Needed A Study to Tell Them That Men Are Suckers For a Pretty Woman? Duh!
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[regic]

The team also noticed that on the weekend of the publication of the most recent Harry Potter book, bloggers used "words like 'Harry', 'Potter', 'shop' and 'book'," PhD student Gilad Mishne reveals...

The team is a bunch of s. 

[jezebel]

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The team also noticed that on the weekend of the publication of the most recent Harry Potter book, bloggers used "words like 'Harry', 'Potter', 'shop' and 'book'," PhD student Gilad Mishne reveals...

The team is a bunch of s. 
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Is Cracker Jack giving PhDs as prizes? :