FWIW I don't buy this argument. Nobody thinks p-hacking, non-replicable findings, or data errors are okay. Avoiding those things is a standard that individual researchers & fields as a whole apply to themselves constantly
Income ≠ wealth
The wealth distribution is surely much less equal
Conditionally accepted at the APSR (w/ @scottclifford.bsky.social & @patrickpliu.bsky.social):
Why does political information so often change beliefs but NOT attitudes? We highlight the role of belief relevance, or the extent to which beliefs bear on attitudes.
"...estimated last year that a $200-per-month Claude Code subscription could use up to $2,000 in compute, suggesting significant subsidization by Anthropic. Today... that $200 plan able to consume about $5,000 in compute" www.forbes.com/sites/annato...
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
"In particular, while expressive responding clearly causes surveys to exaggerate the extent to which partisanship acts as a perceptual screen, the same forces that produce expressive responding in surveys may also affect the political judgments people make in real life."
I appreciate your post, bit of a luddite but you & others have convinced me to try Claude for a few things on my to do list
Haha dude I was just coming here to make this same comment
I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to
My take on the partisan expressive responding literature is now in print. Open access: doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Have examples of social science papers that use DAGs to justify their controls? I find these very hard to come by & would like to use for teaching.
Hell of a chart, this, from @financialtimes.com. Spot the JCPOA.
on.ft.com/4kSuQYO
And let me refine "better": Talarico makes the case in a way that I think is especially likely to resonate with an audience that really needs to hear it
Open to it. Til then, anything you'd recommend I read / watch / listen to?
Not sure I agree. Rs oppose Jesus on every issue. To the extent I've seen Talarico makes that case better than anyone in politics
I am the reason there are so many em dashes in the training data
This recent RCT of an "AI stethoscope" claims the technology "shows promise" for diagnosing cardiovascular conditions.
It does not.
It is a textbook example of the risks of conducting unprincipled 'per protocol analyses'. Once again, peer review at a major medical journal has failed.
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I'm hiring a postdoc (from Aug 1) to help build a new research program on politically sustainable immigration policies at Notre Dame.
Looking for a social scientist with strong quant skills, familiarity with new computational tools, and interest in public-facing research.
Good Authority's Erik Voeten used country-level UN vote data to create ideal points, similar to how political ideology is measured. It shows the massive shift in U.S. foreign policy in 2025, relative to the rest of the world. goodauthority.org/news/the-wor...
Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in Nature and answers "Yes."
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
How it works.
ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings.
www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...
Very excited to see this out at @bjpols.bsky.social! In this article, I show that contemporary political news coverage makes it challenging for readers to learn information that is helpful for democratic accountability, even for very politically engaged audiences.
A brief summary:
Sowing fear of "ICE at the polls!" could do more to suppress votes than any actual ICE at the polls. Here's an explanation of the right's strategy on this, along with my recommendations for what to do instead of playing along.
katestarbird.substack.com/p/effective-...
Warrantless searches sparked the American Revolution. In the 1760s, Britain made complaints similar to this about policing American merchants & resorted to issuing blanket "writs of assistance" to customs officers to enter ships, businesses, and homes without a specific warrant or even any evidence.
Everyone who says they don’t have enough goons to do this everywhere is totally missing the point that they absolutely have enough goons to do it in enough swing state city neighborhoods to tip the Senate or the Electoral College:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.
His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.
Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.
Let's see if we can change her mind
