Rosedale says the company saw a slight uptick in bad behavior toward others after the company's software became available on the video-game app store Steam in November, leading to an influx of new users.
My impression, as someone who has been paying attention to scientific communities for more than two decades, is that the last 12 months don't represent a marked uptick in sexist behavior; it's pretty much business as usual.
Equally rare, but still disconcerting are the one percent of patients who have suicidal thoughts, or an uptick in aggressive behavior.
This resulted in an uptick in privacy-seeking behavior in the testers who tried the app.
"We have seen a slight uptick in spam and fraudulent account behavior since your piece was released," he told me.
"We are noticing a slight uptick in the reports of intimidating behavior," said Adam Gitlin, counsel for the Brennan Center for Justice Democracy Program.
Denver, Colo., start-up Convercent, which helps companies prevent and detect bad behavior, saw an uptick in interest and activity earlier this year amid Uber's fall into disrepute.
One new study, published in the journal Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, suggests that people experience an uptick in mood when they are on social networking sites.
A recent study by the Brennan Center for Justice found that since 2013, when the US supreme court drastically reduced federal controls against discriminatory behavior by largely southern states, there has been a dramatic uptick in voter purges.
This means that we don't know if an uptick in traffic was due to an ad or some random variation in Internet behavior.
