Why counting vaccinated Americans doesn’t always add up
The percentages the CDC reports don’t necessarily line up with census data. Here’s why.
People are more anti-vaccine if they get their covid news from Facebook than from Fox News, data shows
Biden said social media companies are ‘killing people’ by spreading vaccine misinformation
These nine swing states will see the biggest ‘blue shift’ as ballots are counted after the election
Biden’s margin will almost certainly improve as mail-in ballots are counted — by up to 60 percentage points
These three governors are reopening their states faster than their voters want
That’s what our polling found in Florida, Georgia and Tennessee
If you’ve lost hope in American democracy, here’s some good news
[caption id="attachment_77716" align="aligncenter" width="960"] (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] In 1876, Samuel
What are the Socialist Party’s chances of winning in France? Very low.
[caption id="attachment_53628" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Former French education minister Benoît Hamon
Politicians and citizens talking without shouting? It can happen.
[caption id="attachment_22734" align="aligncenter" width="650"] Dan Thompson of Canton, Mich., yells
Three Notes on Ideas and Political Economy
"Dani Rodrik's piece":http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/how-economists-killed-policy-analysis-by-dani-rodrik on the reasons why political economy needs
Evolution, Pundits and Pollsters
"David Lazer":http://blogs.iq.harvard.edu/netgov/2012/11/the_extraordinary_delusions_of.html has an interesting piece on the topic. bq.
The NSF and Big Data in the Social Sciences
Myron Gutmann of the NSF gave a talk a few
Election Eve Potpourri
* Matt Dickinson to Nate Silver: "Man up":http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2010/11/01/nate-silver-is-not-a-political-scientist! * David
A Defense of the America Speaks Forums
Kevin Esterling, who is involved in evaluating the America Speaks
Showing the Spread of MFN Agreements
"David Lazer":http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2010/06/the_emergence_of_international_order.html blogs an animation by Sune Lehmann of his
Coburn and Conservative Media Outlets Criticize NSF-Funded Study of E-Townhalls
Via David Lazer, and some subsequent poking around, I learned
Network Analysis Conference at Harvard This Summer
Social network analysis is now making its way into politcal