Academics Bewildered by Trump’s Domination of Google Results
6th October 2020
President Donald Trump continues to confound academics as they try to explain possible correlations between Google searches and electoral victory. The conclusion? It’s all up for grabs!
Psychology Today’s report concluded that Trump is once again the chaos candidate. The article’s main observation suggested: “The polls might be way off, again.” In past elections, there has been a correlation between a candidate’s popularity in Google search and his electoral victory. The study “Google Search Predicts Big Surprise in November Election,” clarified that “in 2016, search interest in Trump actually did accurately predict the election result.” Even so, the article mused that “Google search data may not have the same predictive power as in previous elections.”