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Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Digital Humanities

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation–supported course assignment, between 21 January 2025 and 16 May 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): JLCortinez1 (article contribs).

— Assignment last updated by JLCortinez1 (talk) 00:48, 23 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

COI edit request: self-selection and population inference from social data

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This edit request by an editor with a conflict of interest was declined. Some or all of the changes weren't supported by neutral, independent, reliable sources. Consider re-submitting with content based on media, books and scholarly works.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure: I am Alex-George Adam, the author of the preprint cited below. I am proposing this addition on the talk page rather than editing the article directly.

Proposed location: In the Criticism and debates section, following the existing list of methodological and ethical concerns.

Proposed text:

Social-media data are often generated through self-selected participation, so an observed share among users who speak does not necessarily identify the corresponding attitude share in a broader population. A 2026 preprint treated the population attitude share as partially identified and proposed reporting bounds and sensitivity analyses based on explicit assumptions about the relative probability of participation.^[1]

Rationale: The article identifies social-media posts and digital traces as important social-data sources but does not currently explain that their producers may be a self-selected subset of the target population. The proposed text describes the methodological limitation conservatively and attributes the particular partial-identification application to a preprint.

Thank you. Alex-George Adam (talk) 14:47, 2 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Alex-George Adam (talk) 14:47, 2 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done: The changes are not supported by neutral, independent, reliable sources. Please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Per WP:PREPRINT your source is not a reliable source Aloneinthewild (talk) 19:58, 2 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Understood and thank you very much for your feedback :) Have a great day! ~2026-43149-33 (talk) 13:44, 4 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

References

↑ Adam, Alex-George (2026-07-19). The Silent Denominator: Population Attitudes as a Partially Identified Quantity under Self-Selected Participation (Preprint). Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21442342.

[1] Adam, Alex-George (2026-07-19). The Silent Denominator: Population Attitudes as a Partially Identified Quantity under Self-Selected Participation (Preprint). Zenodo. doi:10.5281/zenodo.21442342.

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