651. Words for negative concepts mutate more than words for positive concepts across Indo-European languages (Jackson et al. 2022) 652. Renters are starkly underrepresented at all levels of government in the United States (Einstein et al. 2022) 653. The term jaywalking was defined in a larger struggle to redraw the boundary between street use and […]
Category: science
Maps, models and meaning
In the book Notes from a Small Island, Bill Bryson describes his fascination with the London Underground map: “What a piece of perfection it is, created in 1931 by a forgotten hero named Harry Beck, an out-of-work draughtsman who realized that when you are underground it doesn’t matter where you are. Beck saw – and […]
Political scandals and meta-analyses
A new paper finds that “scandal-ridden politicians tend to get fewer votes at the ballot box, are more likely to lose elections, and are less likely to win re-election”. The title of the paper is “The Electoral Consequences of Scandals: A Meta-Analysis”, and while I find the conclusion sensible (I would not expect scandal-ridden politicians […]
The publication history of my papers
Here is an overview of where my published papers did (not) end up getting published. There is very little transparency in the academic publication process, and I believe it is great when people talk openly about the work they put into getting their work published. Below, I provide details on where each of my papers […]
How effective is nudging? #4
In my previous post on nudging, I discussed a series of critical comments published in PNAS on the meta-analysis demonstrating a substantial average effect of nudging. The key question of interest is whether it makes sense to make a meta-analysis on the effectiveness of nudging and, if so, what the average effect size is. In […]