In 2017, I made a dataset with political datasets. Over the years, when I have found new datasets that might be relevant to political scientists, I have added them to the dataset and overview on GitHub. In 2017, the dataset consisted of ~150 datasets. Now it contains more than 500 datasets. The datasets cover various […]
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Why do we need opinion polls?
Why do we need opinion polls? It is a good question. We need air to breathe, but we do not need opinion polls, right? While I believe it is a fair question, I also believe it is often misguided or misleading to say that opinion polls are unnecessary. The reason being that we tend to […]
Meningsmålinger på Politologi.dk #5
I mit forrige indlæg omkring meningsmålinger på Politologi.dk introducerede jeg en række mindre ændringer, primært af teknisk karakter. Min oprindelige plan var at jeg kunne gøre noget lignende i det efterfølgende indlæg (altså dette), men little did I know – sådan skulle det ikke være. I dette indlæg bringer jeg én større ændring, der allerede […]
Opbakningen til de fire gamle partier, 1953-2022
For et par år siden skrev jeg et indlæg, hvor jeg viste opbakningen til de fire gamle partier i meningsmålingerne fra 1957 til 2020. Jeg har ovenpå folketingsvalget forsøgt at arbejde med forskellige måder at visualisere opbakningen til de fire gamle partier ved de seneste folketingsvalg (og altså ikke meningsmålingerne). Jeg fandt det især interessant […]
How effective is nudging? #4
In my previous post on nudging, I discussed a series of critical comments published in PNAS on the meta-analysis demonstrating a substantial average effect of nudging. The key question of interest is whether it makes sense to make a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of nudging and, if so, what the average effect size is. In […]