We looked at a variety of different categories of events, allowing some analysis of what characteristics seemed most conducive to the correlations found in the data apparently linked to the shared thoughts and emotions of people around the world. The overall effect size in the formal data is about one-third of a standard deviation, but [...]

Several analyses, independent of the originally specified procedures, yield interesting and robust correlation or covariance measures linked to variations in GCP data. There are potentially predictive relationships between GCP data and stock market valuation shifts, and we also can see significant correlation of GCP data to high-usage Google search terms. We find evidence that data [...]