201. Rats can learn the complex task of navigating a car to a desired goal area (Crawford et al. 2020) 202. 90% of academics in the UK have been working while sick at least sometimes (Kinman and Wray 2021) 203. Back-to-front airline boarding in response to the COVID-19 pandemic roughly doubles the infection exposure compared […]
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New article in Political Science Research and Methods: Longevity returns to political office
In the July issue of Political Science Research and Methods, Sebastian Barfort, Robert Klemmensen and yours truly have an article on the longevity returns to political office. Here is the abstract: Does political office cause worse or better longevity prospects? Two perspectives in the literature offer contradicting answers. First, increased income, social status, and political […]
Jytte fra Marketing er desværre tilbage
Her den anden dag fik jeg læst Jytte vender tilbage. Bogen er skrevet af Morten Münster og er en opfølger til bogen Jytte fra Marketing er desværre gået for i dag (som jeg anmeldte for Kommunikationsforum). Hvis du allerede er bekendt med grundlæggende begreber inden for statistik (eksempelvis fødselsdagsparadokset), adfærdsøkonomi (eksempelvis tabsaversion), og økonomi mere […]
New article in Party Politics: Party activism in the populist radical right
In the new issue of Party Politics, you will find an article I have written together with Paul Whiteley, Matthew Goodwin and Harold Clarke. The article deals with the predictors of party activism within the populist radical right. Here is the abstract: Recent decades have seen an upsurge of interest in populist radical right (PRR) […]
Replace equations with code
Here is a suggestion: In empirical research, academics should move equations from the methods section to the appendix and, if anything, show the few lines of code used to estimate the model(s) in the software being used (ideally with citations to the software and statistical packages). Preferably, it should be possible to understand the estimation […]