Hos Altinget kan man læse, at opbakningen til den europæiske menneskerettighedskonvention er på vippen. Baggrunden for denne konklusion er en meningsmåling foretaget af Norstat, der viser, at 48% af danskerne mener, at Danmark bør være klar til at træde ud af konventionen. Det relevante spørgsmål er dog, om halvdelen af danskerne går rundt med den […]
Year: 2017
Hvorfor styrtdykkede Dansk Folkeparti i meningsmålingerne?
Hos TV 2 er man i fuld sving med at perfektionere kunsten at skabe noget ud af intet. Dette er smukt at studere, som et andet kunstværk, eksempelvis Guernica, men det har intet med god journalistik at gøre. På det seneste har man således set TV 2 finde store politiske historier i tilfældig støj, eksempelvis […]
New job
Personal and great news (and old news if you follow me on Twitter): Today I begin as Lecturer at the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent.
Potpourri: Statistics #39
312. What is the tidyverse? 313. Tips and tricks for working with images and figures in R Markdown documents 314. All hail ggplot2—The code powering all those excellent charts is 10 years old 315. The Only Probability Cheatsheet You’ll Ever Need 316. Formula Interface for ggplot2 317. State-space modelling of the Australian 2007 federal election […]
House effects in Danish opinion polls
While opinion polls are great they are also subject to a multitude of potential systematic errors. Some of these errors are related to the fact that polling firms rely on specific methods that might shape the results (so-called ‘house effects’). Some firms, for example, rely on internet panels when they recruit respondents, whereas other firms […]