In my article in the Policy Studies Journal (published in 2019), I provided a review of published quantitative studies that explicitly examine policy feedback effects on public opinion. Since then, I have noticed several other studies being published and below I provide a list of the studies I have in my archive. As you can […]
Category: science
Does YouTube outages cause rape?
Here is a strange study: When You Can’t Tube… Impact of a Major YouTube Outage on Rapes. And here is the abstract for the study: On Tuesday, October 16, 2018, YouTube experienced a major and rare global service outage. Using high-frequency crime data from the United States, we document an important increase in rapes in […]
Global risks, climate change and COVID-19
On 15 January 2020, the World Economic Forum released The Global Risks Report 2020. The report was published before we talked about COVID-19 which makes it an even more interesting read. There are a lot of risks in the world. Weapons of mass destruction, food crises, natural disasters, climate change, data fraud, unemployment, asset bubbles […]
How not to measure conspiracy beliefs #3
Here is a brief update to my two previous posts on the flawed study published in Psychological Medicine. To recap, the study found that almost half of the respondents in a UK sample agree that the “[c]oronavirus is a bioweapon developed by China to destroy the West”. In a new study, John Garry, Rob Ford […]
Skaber sociale medier ekkokamre? #4
Jeg har i tidligere indlæg kigget nærmere på, om der er evidens for, at sociale medier skaber ekkokamre (se mine indlæg fra 2017, 2018 og 2019). Det første indlæg jeg skrev om spørgsmålet var et forsøg på at give modspil til det argument, der var dominerende i den danske debat, navnligt at sociale medier skabte […]