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The other day I talked to The Journalists’s Resource about how journalists should cover opinion polls. Subsequently, the journalist wrote a great article with a list of things to avoid as a journalist when covering opinion polls – and what to do (it is a constructive piece of journalism). You can read the article here. […]

The randomised controlled trial is seen as the gold standard within the social sciences. I do not disagree. I love well-executed experiments with strong causal identification. If two studies, one experimental and one non-experimental, differ in their conclusions, there is no doubt which study I, all else equal, will side with. Most importantly, I often […]

Vi er nu en måned fra folkeafstemning om forsvarsforbeholdet. I løbet af de seneste uger har debatten omkring folkeafstemningen især beskæftiget sig med, hvilket spørgsmål, vælgerne skal forholde sig til. Skulle spørgsmålet handle om at deltage i det europæiske samarbejde om sikkerhed og forsvar? Eller skulle forsvarsforbeholdet nævnes eksplicit? Der har i den forbindelse været […]

391. 🇺🇦 Made in Ukraine 392. Chesses 393. 103 Bits of Advice I Wish I Had Known 394. The Common Tongue of Twenty-First-Century London 395. The Turn-of-the-Century Pigeons That Photographed Earth from Above 396. Teach Yourself Computer Science 397. London’s lost ringways 398. Who’s in Your Wallet? 399. I Liked The Idea Of Carbon Offsets, […]

How can we measure whether a meeting is productive or not? And if we can, what is the percentage of meetings that keep employees from doing productive work? 10%? 15%? 80%? Did you know that 70% of meetings keep employees from doing productive work? Boro baba. In this post I will show that there is […]