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Professor at Duke University. Cultural evolution, political attitudes, social change, nerdy stuff in R. YNWA. https://vaiseys.github.io/
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It's been a while since I've looked at Nickell 1981 but I don't think he estimated the bias as flipping signs and it does work a bit differently for random intercepts. But I could be misremembering.
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Watch out for those lags with FEs. Craziest shit I've ever seen. Opposite signs of the true effects!!! 🤯
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I read this today thanks to a recommendation from @pengzell.bsky.social. Fantastic stuff!
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🎯
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SAGE headquarters when anyone spends $37.50 to read a two-page book review.
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1) LCAs are designed to find classes. So when a paper's Aim I is "We'll use LCA to see if there are classes", it's like saying "We're going to estimate a mean and see if there's an SD". It's that dumb
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Very cool
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So real
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Thanks!
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Thanks, Libby! Sure, please send me the info.
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The lesson is to always ask your students first, I guess!
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I mean this is definitely the punchline! I was trying something similar myself.
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I did the same thing and found the same
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I'm working on it. I know the punchline but I'm still working on it!
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Yeah I talk about this in the original 2009 paper!
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Yes I hate the style but his ideas are actually so useful. There's a documentary, *La Sociologie Est Un Sport de Combat*, where he speaks like a normal person (on the radio, etc.) and it's especially great.
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I translated this into normal person English 10 years ago! scatter.wordpress.com/2015/09/08/t...
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Metaphorical Finns only!
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Please do!
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So glad this is resonating!
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Probably! The baseline now is very little public criticism in sociology. For example, everyone says "thanks for that great talk" and then gossips behind the speaker's back if they think the talk was bad. So we need a kind and constructive, yet clear, style of public critique.
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Yes I was thinking of this, too. Sometimes critiques are so diplomatic that they are not even recognized as such.
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Ooh I like indiscrete
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We deserved that, unfortunately.
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In sum, despite testing the effects of several different threats in large samples on a diverse set of ideological DVs, we fail to find evidence that our threat stimuli caused people to become more conservative. We reiterate our call for scientists to explore alternative theories of ideology. 9/10