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 […]
Year: 2019
Teaching material: Quantitative Politics with R
If you are interested in learning R, I can recommend this resource: Quantitative Politics with R. It is a guide in development (together with Zoltán Fazekas). In the current version, you will find an introduction to the basics of R (e.g. how to import and manipulate data), how to collect political data (primary and secondary […]
Alas, it’s not rocket science
Boris Johnson writes in The Telegraph that since we could get to the Moon, we should be able to get out of the EU: “They went to the Moon 50 years ago. Surely today we can solve the logistical issues of the Irish border”. I sympathise with the sentiment in the argument. A lot of […]
Big Five personality traits in non-WEIRD settings
A new study, published in Science Advances, questions the validity of the Big Five personality traits outside of Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) populations. I was interviewed by New Scientist in order to give my take on the implications of the study. The article is available online.
New article in European Political Science Review: Bailout or bust?
Robert Klemmensen, Michael Baggesen Klitgaard and I have a new article in the May issue of the European Political Science Review. The article is titled ‘Bailout or bust? Government evaluations in the wake of a bailout‘. Here is the abstract: Governments are often punished for negative events such as economic downturns and financial shocks. However, […]