This is a brief update to a previous post on how to measure conspiracy beliefs. My point in the previous post was that a study published in Psychological Medicine used weird measures to capture conspiracy beliefs. In a letter to the editor, Sally McManus, Joanna D’Ardenne and Simon Wessely note that the response options provided […]
Tag: COVID-19
Observationer relateret til COVID-19
Her følger et par personlige observationer, primært skrevet til mig selv, så jeg på et tidspunkt i fremtiden kan minde mig selv om, hvad der blandt andet optog min opmærksomhed i (hvad der føles som) en historisk tid. Politik. Jeg kan se det ironiske i, at politikerne for år tilbage talte om 2020-planer. Reformer blev […]
Social science research during COVID-19
What a time to be alive. The coronavirus pandemic is a global problem and social scientists use this unique opportunity to write novel papers with the novel COVID-19 as the case (or the context of the study). There is not a single day without a new study saying something about either social distancing or the […]
COVID-19 og ulighed
I begyndelsen af 2020 havde de færeste nok forestillet sig, at det største emne på den offentlige dagsorden – og i vores daglige liv – ville blive coronavirussen (COVID-19). Min forventning er, at coronavirussen vil øge uligheden i samfundet — økonomisk, socialt, kulturelt og politisk. Dette ikke ved at der bliver gennemført radikale ændringer i […]
Potpourri: Statistics #63 (COVID-19)
646. Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially, and how to “flatten the curve” 647. Top 15 R resources on Novel COVID-19 Coronavirus 648. Collection of analyses, packages, visualisations of COVID19 data in R 649. Coronavirus (Covid-19) Data in the United States 650. How to Flatten the Curve, a Social Distancing Simulation and Tutorial 651. Forecasting […]