OpinionNovember 20, 2024
Grumpy Voters Want Better Stories—Not Statistics
A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House
Duncan Watts is the Stevens University Professor and Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He studies social and organizational networks, collective dynamics of human systems, web-based experiments and analysis of large-scale digital data, including the production, consumption and absorption of news.
Grumpy Voters Want Better Stories—Not Statistics
A social scientist looks at the portrait of U.S. voters, and voting, in the aftermath of the 2024 presidential election that put Trump into the White House