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uptonorwell.bsky.social
Political Scientist. Professor at NYU’s Center for Global Affairs. Experiments, data analysis, guitar, drums, fan of comedy. Make guides for @statacorp.bsky.social users. Two boys and exhausted all the time. More at www.johnvkane.com
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For those currently writing and/or grading papers, always good to keep this distinction in mind

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Do most people understand how inflation works? That drops in the inflation rate don't mean drops in prices? 🤔 No. And misunderstanding is significantly associated with vote choice in 2024. Thanks to @verasight.bsky.social and @peterenns.bsky.social for letting me field this question 🙏

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Had a great time presenting in @stecula.bsky.social 's PhD class on null results in experiments. Thank you again, Dom! If anyone who teaches experiments would like me to present for a course in the Fall, just email or DM me--happy to do it! 😁

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Had a great time presenting on null / non-significant results in survey experiments to Samara Klar's Ph.D. class at University of Arizona! 😁 🚨If you teach a course on experiments in the Fall and would like me to present, feel free to email/DM me--I'd be happy to do it! polisky

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New WP! What is political bias in its most extreme form? What factors are associated with it? And how can it be reduced? At next week's @MPSAnet conf., @iganson.bsky.social & I will present our paper "Rejoining the Cult" that offers answers these questions: go.shr.lc/4j9bg9j 🧵

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

Happy to share a new working paper with @uptonorwell.bsky.social! The subject of partisan bias is only increasing in its importance, and in this paper we conceptually distinguish "blatant bias:" i.e., nothing can dissuade a partisan's support for a leader. preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

🚨New WP! What is political bias in its most extreme form? What factors are associated with it? And how can it be reduced? At next week's @MPSAnet conf., @iganson.bsky.social & I will present our paper "Rejoining the Cult" that offers answers these questions: go.shr.lc/4j9bg9j 🧵

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

A perfect encapsulation of our current moment: Celebrating the destruction of the Dept. of Education whilst misspelling “Department”

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

This is a really thoughtful take on my recent @jepsjournal.bsky.social paper. Carlisle looks at my 7 Alternative Explanations from a statistical power perspective—highly recommend!!! Thank you, Carlisle!

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Super important and timely new study by some great folks at @stonybrooku.bsky.social 🙌

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

For anyone who's just becoming interested in politics, navigating it must be harder than ever. Exhibit A: This is the *WH's* own response to the charge that Trump confused transgender mice w/ transGENIC mice. They cite the studies, NONE of which appears to be aimed to "making mice transgender" 🤷🏻‍♂️

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

Quick note that a fun way to visualize correlations in @statacorp.bsky.social is with Jann's "heatplot" package.👍 Install with -ssc heatplot- , then run -help heatplot- & scroll to the correlation matrix example. *Maybe* will also make it more fun for students to learn correlation analysis 🤔

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

🚨It's finally got an issue and page numbers 😊 If you ever do survey experiments and maybe, just maybe, sometimes get null results, this article might help you (plus it's Open Access!). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

🚨It's finally got an issue and page numbers 😊 If you ever do survey experiments and maybe, just maybe, sometimes get null results, this article might help you (plus it's Open Access!). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 94 days ago • 6 comments

🚨New WP! Congress makes many bills but passes very few laws. 🤔 Nicole Huffman, David Stack, & I show that introducing "symbolic legislation"--i.e., bills with no hope of becoming law--comes with sizable benefits from one's supporters. preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

Today I gave perhaps the most intimidating presentation I've ever given: Intro to Data Visualization. I normally don't sweat it at all, but this time the audience was...my son's kindergarten class😬 Fortunately, @statacorp.bsky.social has a lot of tricks that made it a little more fun 👍

submitted 115 days ago • 0 comments

The four phases of having your kids be off from school for winter break for 16 straight days...

submitted 127 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely love the New Year’s Eve “Twilight Zone” marathon and, honestly, this graph might be one of the most sinister things to have ever appeared on the show 😵‍💫 @graphcrimes.bsky.social

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments