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481. Passport Index 482. The Owen Wilson Wow API 483. Think about Equity 484. The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes 485. The Dynamics of Exploration on Spotify 486. The Psychology of Design 487. Academic career advice 488. How I learned to suck less at Chess 489. John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes […]

I mit forrige indlæg om, hvor stor opbakning der er til Inger Støjbergs nye parti, pointerede jeg, at der var et problem med målinger, der gav et misvisende billede af opbakningen til partiet. Derfor konkluderede jeg, at vi er “bedre tjent med traditionelle meningsmålinger eller målinger, der ikke eksplicit handler om at stemme på et […]

In a previous post, I discussed a study by Mertens et al. (2022) showing that the average effect size of nudging is large (i.e., a Cohen’s d of 0.45). In my post, I identified several limitations in the study that led me to conclude that the average effect size presented in the study most likely […]

In a new book, Strength in Numbers: How Polls Work and Why We Need Them, G. Elliott Morris sets out to provide an ‘insightful exploration of political polling and a bold defense of its crucial role in a modern democracy’. I am interested in political polling and, unsuprisingly, I was looking forward to reading this […]

526. A worldwide assembly size for a lower chamber could be approximately 2000 seats (Colomer 2014) 527. Consumer-posted photos on Yelp are strong predictors of restaurant survival (Zhang and Luo 2022) 528. More than two million km² of wilderness were lost from 2000 to 2018 (Mu et al. 2022) 529. The creme-heavy side is uniformly […]