Year: 2018

Or, why is Rwanda doing better than Denmark? In this post I outline basic methodological problems with The Global Gender Gap Report (the GGGR). The GGGR is developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) and “benchmarks 144 countries on their progress towards gender parity across four thematic dimensions.” Benchmarking 144 very different countries on their […]

Together with 87 other scientists I am co-author on a new paper in Nature Human Behavior. The paper is titled Justify your alpha and the abstract is as follows: In response to recommendations to redefine statistical significance to P ≤ 0.005, we propose that researchers should transparently report and justify all choices they make when […]

Den eksperimentelle metode anses som værende guldstandarden inden for samfundsvidenskaberne. Dette fordi metoden giver mulighed for at belyse kausale sammenhænge. Eksperimentet går i al sin enkelthed ud på, at vi ved hjælp af randomisering – altså tilfældig inddeling – kan sandsynliggøre, om en stimulis har en effekt eller ej. Dette eksempelvis om en politik virker […]

357. Fundamentals of Data Visualization 358. Analyze Survey Data for Free: Step by Step Instructions to Explore Public Microdata from an Easy to Type Website 359. Webcast: Machine Learning and Econometrics 360. Step-by-step introduction to quantitative text analysis using quanteda 361. Thinking Clearly About Correlations and Causation: Graphical Causal Models for Observational Data (article based […]

My article, ‘Welfare Retrenchments and Government Support: Evidence from a Natural Experiment’, is now published in the European Sociological Review (vol. 34, no. 1). The abstract sums up the content of the article: A large body of literature has provided mixed results on the impact of welfare retrenchments on government support. This article examines whether […]