In the new issue of Political Studies Review, I provide a book review of The Populist Radical Right: A Reader. The book is a collection of 32 previously published journal articles and book chapters handpicked by the editor, Cas Mudde. I conclude in the review that: […] we are dealing with a significant and important […]
Year: 2019
Er Danmark verdens dårligste sted at få venner?
Hos Politiken kan man læse, at Danmark er verdens dårligste sted at få venner. Det empiriske belæg for dette påstand er en rapport foretaget af expatforeningen InterNations. Der er dog flere forskellige problemer med den pågælende rapport, der har direkte implikationer for, om Danmark kan betegnes som værende verdens dårligste land at få venner. For […]
Potpourri: Statistics #58
– Mastering R presentations – The Little Handbook of Statistical Practice – Create regular expressions easily – Data Integrity Tests for R – Quantitative Economics with Python – Doing Meta-Analysis in R: A Hands-On Guide – Appreciating R: The Ease of Testing Linear Model Assumptions – Just Quickly: The unexpected use of functions as arguments […]
Kommentar i Berlingske: Meningsmålinger i medierne fordrejer virkeligheden
Har d.d. en kommentar i Berlingske sammen med Zoltán Fazekas. Den kan ligeledes læses online her. I kommentaren fokuserer vi på det faktum, at ikke alle meningsmålinger har samme sandsynlighed for, at blive dækket af medierne. Der er med andre ord systematiske forskelle i, hvor meget medieomtale forskellige meningsmålinger får. Som vi skriver: Det er […]
Når der går kage i repræsentativiteten
Ser 41 pct. af danskerne gerne, at der var mindre kage på jobbet? Det er hvad denne artikel hos BT påstår. TjekDet har taget et nærmere kig på den pågældende undersøgelse, der ligger til grund for påstanden. Jeg har i den forbindelse også givet et par kritiske kommentarer med på vejen. Undersøgelsen bygger på respondenter […]
A Guide to Getting International Statistics into R
In political science, some of the data we use is from international databases such as the World Bank, ILOSTAT, OECD, WHO and Eurostat. One possibility to access data from these sources is to manually download data from their webpages. This is, however, often time-consuming and not an efficient way to obtain data. Luckily, there are […]
Seven ways to find data
Data might be the new oil (there are arguments for and against this). While there definitely is a lot of data out there for you to drill, it can be difficult to find the exact data you need. In this post I will outline seven different strategies to 1) keep yourself updated on new data […]
Potpourri: Statistics #57
– Keep It Together: Using the tidyverse for machine learning – Learn to purrr – Mastering Shiny – A Comprehensive List of Handy R Packages – The challenges of using machine learning to identify gender in images – How is polling done around the world? – How to Get Better at Embracing Unknowns – Drawing […]
Word limits in political science journals
Different political science journals have different article formats with different word/page limits. Consequently, whenever you want to submit an article to a journal, the first thing to look up is the exact word limit. In order to get a sense of the different article formats and word limits in political science journals, I have created […]
25 interesting facts
1. Associations with cancer risk or benefits have been claimed for most food ingredients (Schoenfeld and Ioannidis 2013) 2. People in non-English speaking countries with subtitled TV are better at English than people in countries with dubbed television (Micola et al. 2019) 3. Walking speed is a function of city size in that pedestrians move […]