Last week Princeton researchers released a widely covered study saying Facebook would lose 80% of its users by 2015-2017. But nowFacebook’s data scientists have turned the study’s silly “correlation equals causation” methodology of tracking Google search volume against it to show Princeton would lose all of its students by 2021.
A Facebook spokesperson says “the report that Princeton put out is utter nonsense.” Indeed, it’s flawed throughout....
Battle of the big data results in funny bone.