Trump's election shortened 2016 Thanksgiving dinners, researchers say


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Washington: Research published on Thursday affirms what many Americans know from experience: The tumultuous 2016 election made Thanksgiving holiday dinner awkward or even excruciating for people in politically divided families.


The new study isn’t based on surveys, social media comments or personal anecdotes about families cleaved by the election. It comes from the mobile phone data of 10 million people in the United States – data that captured their movements when the holiday, marked by a traditional family meal and gathering, arrived just 16 days after Donald Trump was elected president.


President Donald Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, speaks to members of the U.S. Coast Guard, at the Lake Worth Inlet Station, on Thanksgiving in 2017.

President Donald Trump, with first lady Melania Trump, speaks to members of the U.S. Coast Guard, at the Lake Worth Inlet Station, on Thanksgiving in 2017.


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Smartphones preserve data on where and when people move around. The new research, published in the journal Science, harvested that data, which was anonymised to protect individual privacy, and compared it with voting patterns at the precinct level.


The results led to a striking conclusion: At Thanksgiving 2016, a significant percentage of people who had travelled in 2015 chose to stay home in 2016 rather than visit relatives with different political views. Among those who did travel for Thanksgiving, they were less likely to linger for the pumpkin pie, according to the study.


The same researchers drew headlines when they published a preliminary version of their paper last year, but this latest iteration of their work incorporates more data from 2015 and makes a more robust argument that the observed shortening of Thanksgiving gatherings a year later was directly linked to political polarisation.


Article source: http://watoday.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/celebrity-news/prince-harry-says-no-royal-wants-to-be-king-or-queen-20170622-gwwskl.html

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