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  Earlier Study Methods The new research says that the results from word-level methods (in which researchers either picked words or asked raters to annotate words for how "positive" they are) are inconsistent. E.g, Youth slangs such as "LOL"—the acronym for "laugh out loud"—and the words "good" and "love" were more frequently used in areas with lower income and education (in general, lower well-being).  So even though these might seem like positive words, they may not really be.   Solution An algorithm can be trained with both user's responses to a well-being survey and a sample of posts from (twitter) from the same person. Thus rather than merely looking for words representing positive or negative, the Data-driven method involves the use of machine learning to identify associations between the linguistic information contained in the text and its emotional content.   I believe, with such data-driven techniques, governments can monitor health issues in real-time. In fact, it would become much easier to measure how social distancing is impacting our well being, especially mental health.  hashtag#mentalhealth hashtag#machinelearning hashtag#innovations hashtag#socialmediatools 

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