Year: 2021

Thirty-three. Another year, same me ±95% CIs. One third of a hundred, give or take. I read the post I wrote last year when I turned 32. It all seemed so recent. I could, in principle, repost my thoughts from last year and call it ’33’. There is not much of significance, if anything, to […]

226. People scoring higher in narcissism participate more in politics (Fazekas and Hatemi 2021) 227. Hitler’s speeches had a negligible impact on the Nazis’ electoral fortunes (Selb and Munzert 2018) 228. People have shaped most of terrestrial nature for at least 12,000 years (Ellis et al. 2021) 229. Introverted people listen to more punk music […]

I have been reading a few papers on conspiracy theories in relation to COVID-19 (primarily because I was asked to read a study on this topic for a journal). In parallel, I have been following the debates taking place between scientists on the origin of COVID-19. In this post, I will argue that there are […]

1016. Investigation of Data Irregularities in Doing Business 2018 and Doing Business 2020 1017. Dyadic Clustering in International Relations 1018. Forecasting: Principles and Practice 1019. Data Disasters 1020. A Quick How-to on Labelling Bar Graphs in ggplot2 1021. Data visualisation using R, for researchers who don’t use R 1022. Easy access to high-resolution daily climate […]

I am happy to announce the publication of a new book, ‘Reporting Public Opinion: How the Media Turns Boring Polls into Biased News‘, co-authored with Zoltán Fazekas. The book is about how and why opinion polls are more likely to be about change in the news reporting. Specifically, journalists are more likely to pick opinion […]