Undichotomize bot scoring in summary measures

kurtawirth / botscan

R tool for scanning Twitter for bot activity on a conversation level.

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Undichotomize bot scoring in summary measures #35

Closed ryantmoore closed 3 years ago

ryantmoore commented 3 years ago

Currently, we dichotomize accounts into bots and non-bots based on a (previously-validated) threshold on the bot-score. The bot-score is continuous on [0, 1]. We then report user-level and conversation-level average levels of botiness. We should instead report

the user-level average as the average of the bot-scores for the unique users, and
the conversation-level average as the mean of the bot-scores weighted by the number of tweets by each account

ryantmoore commented 3 years ago

This is implemented in 74c607ee014046851fbdf2602502cc880c5a36de