801. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by cars and automobility (Miner et al. 2024) 802. Major marathons in the United States cause delays in emergency care (Jena et al. 2017) 803. Up to 91% of enlisted US soldiers in Hawai’i in 1944 supported using chemical weapons against Japan (Blair and Horowitz 2023) 804. […]
Category: science
New article in Party Politics: Blurred positions
In the new issue of Party Politics, you can find an article by Mattia Zulianello and yours truly. The title of the paper is ‘Blurred positions: The ideological ambiguity of valence populist parties’. Here is the abstract: While the diversity of populism has received considerable attention, surprisingly little is known about populist parties that defy […]
25 interesting facts #32
776. Studies with null results are perceived to be less publishable, of lower quality, less important, and less precisely estimated (Chopra et al. 2023) 777. When faced with a problem, people systematically overlook subtractive changes (Adams et al. 2021) 778. Older athletes cry more than younger athletes in the Olympics (Krumer and Musau 2023) 779. […]
The quality of opinion polling in parliamentary elections
How good are opinion polls to capture election results in parliamentary elections? To answer this question, I collected data on 40,139 opinion polls, covering elections in 37 countries (238,019 unique party-election observations). The data comes from a variety of sources, including European Opinion Polls as Open Data, POLITICO Poll of Polls, Wikipedia, and country-specific datasets […]
Biting hot dogs
In a new study, published in Scientific Reports, the authors find a correlation between rates of dogs biting humans and temperature as well as UV irradiation levels. That is, as the title suggests (“The risk of being bitten by a dog is higher on hot, sunny, and smoggy days“), dogs are more likely to bite […]