Why Facebook really, really doesn’t want to discourage extremism
Our research finds outrage is what goes viral — and that makes money
Imposing vaccine mandates may be counterproductive, our research suggests
Mandates may increase distrust and public resistance
When good governments (or any governments) base policies on bad research
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No, public opinion is not driven by ‘unreasoning bias and emotion’
One interesting thing about the recent scandal of the retracted
No, public opinion is not driven by 'unreasoning bias and emotion'
One interesting thing about the recent scandal of the retracted
Fake study on changing attitudes: Sometimes a claim that is too good to be true, isn't
A few months ago we reported on a recently published
Fake study on changing attitudes: Sometimes a claim that is too good to be true, isn’t
A few months ago we reported on a recently published
Politicians and citizens talking without shouting? It can happen.
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Was the Facebook emotion experiment unethical?
[caption id="attachment_12164" align="aligncenter" width="908"] ( Karen Bleir/AFP/Getty Images)[/caption] There has been
Hurricanes vs. Himmicanes
The other day I received the following e-mail from a
Where to debunk (political) science findings?
George Johnson writes in Tuesday's New York Times about the
No, math cannot predict the rise and fall of empires
Can math predict the rise and fall of empires? Math
Regression discontinuity with wacky high-order polynomial correction
Check it out: Wow! And this made its way into
“2% per degree Celsius . . . the magic number for how worker productivity responds to warm/hot temperatures”
Solomon Hsiang shares some bad news: Persistently reduced labor productivity
Football and the Greek Election
There has been broad speculation on if and how Greece's
Cognitive Democracy
Over the last couple of years, Cosma Shalizi and I
More on genes and political preferences
Continuing Erik's series on this, here's a new "article":http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/02/1120666109.full.pdf+html by
Arrow’s other theorem
I received the following email from someone who'd like to
Selection bias in the study of chain emails
I blogged a "couple of months ago":https://themonkeycage.org/2010/04/the_political_science_of_chain.html about an interesting
The Environmental Impact of Divorce
Want to save the environment? Get married. Or if you're