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 […]
Category: science
Causality models: Campbell, Rubin and Pearl
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 […]
How (not) to study suicide terrorism
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 […]
Happy Danes
I finally got to read The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well, written by Meik Wiking. It’s actually a fine book and if you are moving to Denmark, I would definitely recommend picking it up (it’s an easy read). There is a lot of things that are good to know about […]
Academic Publishing Total Landscaping
The other day I saw a lot of people sharing a link to a new study in The Lancet. The paper in question is titled “Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19” (see, for example, this and this tweet that went viral). I have not read the study and I have no plans […]