First, thank you for sharing your interesting and novel experiment.
In your Discussion section I found your caveat that the larger effect for conservatives could be reflecting a larger anti-elite bias to be particularly insightful. However, it seems that simply tweeting the content rather than re-tweeting the original tweet would have circumvented this, since the subject would (probably) not know the original source. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that design decision and any plans to address this issue in the future?
First, thank you for sharing your interesting and novel experiment.
In your Discussion section I found your caveat that the larger effect for conservatives could be reflecting a larger anti-elite bias to be particularly insightful. However, it seems that simply tweeting the content rather than re-tweeting the original tweet would have circumvented this, since the subject would (probably) not know the original source. I was wondering if you could elaborate on that design decision and any plans to address this issue in the future?
Thanks!