Month: January 2021

Here is a brief update to my two previous posts on the flawed study published in Psychological Medicine. To recap, the study found that almost half of the respondents in a UK sample agree that the “[c]oronavirus is a bioweapon developed by China to destroy the West”. In a new study, John Garry, Rob Ford […]

I was reading this study on the impact of Weberian bureaucracy on economic growth published in Comparative Political Studies. It’s a great article and I can highly recommend reading it. I like that the study presents most of the results in figures. In fact, there are more figures than tables in the article. However, a […]

Den 16. november står den på kommunalvalg. I den forbindelse kommer vi til at se op til flere meningsmålinger fra landets større kommuner, og det bliver især de lokale medier, der ikke har for vane at formidle meningsmålinger, der skal formidle selvsamme. Dette kommer dog til at være en udfordring for mange journalister, der har […]

Den sidste Voxmeter-måling for Ritzau i 2020 giver Venstre 17,3% af stemmerne. Hvor lavt ligger partiet så? YouGov har haft Venstre omkring 15% men de fleste analyseinstitutter synes at give partiet omkring 17% af stemmerne. Ritzau formulerede på baggrund af Voxmeter-målingen følgende (der kan læses hos bl.a. BT og Kristeligt Dagblad): Ifølge en opgørelse fra […]

782. Hands-On Data Visualization: Interactive Storytelling from Spreadsheets to Code 783. Reflecting on “Vote Cones” 784. Least squares as springs 785. Applying PCA to fictional character personalities 786. Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with R 787. tiktokr: An R Scraper for Tiktok 788. Efficient and beautiful data synthesis: Taking your tidyverse skills to […]