Here is the beginning of an abstract from a recent study published in the American Political Science Review: Larger protests are more likely to lead to policy changes than small ones are, but whether or not attendance estimates provided in news or generated from social media are biased is an open question. This letter closes […]
Month: November 2020
25 interesting facts #5
101. Claude Monet’s late works were the result of cataracts and not conscious experimentation with a more expressionistic style (Gruener 2015) 102. There are about ~40,000 virus species in mammals, including ~10,000 viruses with zoonotic potential (Carlson et al. 2019) 103. People mispredict the time course of their own creativity (Lucas and Nordgren 2020) 104. […]
‘A Diamond is Forever’ and Other Fairy Tales … and Other Fairy Tales
One of the most popular studies on the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is a study published in Economic Inquiry in 2015. The abstract is viewed more than half a million times and the study is downloaded ~80,000 times. These are impressive numbers. The study is in top 10 of the all time total number […]
Potpourri: Statistics #68
758. Rain, Rain, Go away: 137 potential exclusion-restriction violations for studies using weather as an instrumental variable 759. Awesome R Learning Resources 760. A Quick Guide for Journalists to the Use and Reporting of Opinion Polls 761. Mapping congressional roll calls 762. Fancy Times and Scales with COVID data 763. Colors via clrs.cc in R […]
Hvorfor er flere respondenter ikke nødvendigvis bedre? #2
I 2011 skrev jeg et trivielt indlæg om, at flere respondenter ikke nødvendigvis er bedre i en meningsmåling, og ofte er værre, da det kan være et tegn på, at meningsmålingen ikke er repræsentativ. Hvis du ser en meningsmåling med 100.000 respondenter, kan du være ganske sikker på, at der er problemer. I løbet af […]