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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 […]

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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 […]

I recently gave a keynote speech at the conference Sondagens: da Conceção ao Impacto. Luckily, I could give the talk in English (and not Portuguese). Alas, it had to be online. The title of my talk was ‘Opinion polls are bad and we need more of them’. As the English translation of the conference title […]