B.T. kan rapportere, at fire procent af danskerne med sikkerhed vil stemme på Lars Løkke Rasmussen eller hans nye parti, skulle han gå hen og stifte et. B.T. kalder det for en “vild måling”, og det er jeg enig i, at det er en vild måling. Jeg kalder det blot en vild måling fordi den […]
Year: 2021
Potpourri: Statistics #70 {gt}
810. gt – a (G)rammar of (T)ables 811. Functions and Themes for gt tables 812. Beautiful Tables in R: gt and the grammar of tables 813. Embedding custom HTML in gt tables 814. A 3-way crosstab table using {gt} 815. Replicating a New York Times Table of Swedish COVID-19 deaths with gt 816. Spending on […]
How not to measure conspiracy beliefs #3
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 […]
How to improve your figures #2: Don’t show overlapping text labels
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 […]
Kvaliteten af meningsmålingerne ved kommunalvalget
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 […]