The Framework for Open and Reproducible Research Training have launched a new glossary. You can find a paywalled paper introducing the glossary here. I did not find the glossary easy to skim through so I decided to download the glossary from GitHub and make my own table with the 261 entries. Here it is: Title […]
Category: science
How effective is nudging? #2
In a new study, Mertens et al. (2022) examine the effectiveness of nudging. Specifically, they conduct a meta-analysis of 455 effect sizes from 214 publications. Here is the key finding presented in the abstract: “Our results show that choice architecture interventions overall promote behavior change with a small to medium effect size of Cohen’s d […]
25 interesting facts #17
401. The highest emitting 100 urban areas account for 18% of the global carbon footprint (Moran et al. 2018) 402. In the United States, indigenous land density has been reduced by nearly 99% (Farrell et al. 2022) 403. Researchers funded by the alcohol industry are more likely to report alcohol protective effects (Golder and McCambridge […]
Book Review: Stop Reading the News
I do not read a lot of news in a traditional sense. I do not open up the daily newspaper. I rely on my curated Twitter feed and several blogs to keep myself posted on what goes on, up and down in the world. For that reason, I might not be the target audience for […]
New article in British Journal of Political Science: Dynamic Political Interest
In the new issue of British Journal of Political Science, you will find an article by me. Here is the abstract: In order to explain differences in political interest, two strands of literature point to the relevance of either dispositional or situational factors. I remedy this and show how political interest is shaped by the […]