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Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward

We introduce a future orientation index to quantify the degree to which Internet users worldwide seek more information about years in the future than years in the past. We analyse Google logs and find a striking correlation between the country's GDP and the predisposition of its inhabitants to...

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Autores principales: Preis, Tobias, Moat, Helen Susannah, Stanley, H. Eugene, Bishop, Steven R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3320057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22482034
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00350
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spelling pubmed-33200572012-04-05 Quantifying the Advantage of Looking Forward Preis, Tobias Moat, Helen Susannah Stanley, H. Eugene Bishop, Steven R. Sci Rep Article We introduce a future orientation index to quantify the degree to which Internet users worldwide seek more information about years in the future than years in the past. We analyse Google logs and find a striking correlation between the country's GDP and the predisposition of its inhabitants to look forward. Nature Publishing Group 2012-04-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3320057/ /pubmed/22482034 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep00350 Text en Copyright © 2012, Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareALike 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
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