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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 […]

In political science, the predominant way to discuss causality is in relation to experiments and counterfactuals (within the potential outcomes framework). However, we also use concepts such as internal and external validity and sometimes we use arrows to show how different concepts are connected. When I was introduced to causality, it was on a PowerPoint […]

Today is the 20 year anniversary for 9/11. That made me look into one of the most salient methodological discussions on how to study suicide terrorism within political science. Suicide terrorism is a difficult topic to study. Why? Because we cannot learn about the causes (or correlates) of suicide terrorism from only studying cases of […]