As a social scientist, I see myself as constructing a four-dimensional jigsaw, piecing together little bits of data, identifying patterns and iteratively recalibrating.
As a measure, Google Trends seems worthwhile for triangulation with other measures to show regional differences and trends, as you do here. Hopefully the remarks about the relative popularity of God and Taylor Swift are meant in jest. I'm not even sure what it would mean for one to be more popular than the other, being such radically different categories of thing.
As a measure, Google Trends seems worthwhile for triangulation with other measures to show regional differences and trends, as you do here. Hopefully the remarks about the relative popularity of God and Taylor Swift are meant in jest. I'm not even sure what it would mean for one to be more popular than the other, being such radically different categories of thing.