TODAY at NOON on #Studio2: 🦅GO BIRDS! What happens after (Kelce’s) retirement? We chat with Marcus Smith II and Mike Sielski. 📊#SuperTuesday: How much weight should we put on polling? We talk with Matt Graham and Patrick Murray. tinyurl.com/ybhm42jp

Finding 2-1: Contrary to our assumptions, even those expressing no trust in climate scientists were still convinced by the consensus message by 7 percentage points. (We thought they would easily dismiss the consensus info but not the causal one.)

*Less than half* of misinformation studies expose people to both false and true info, and ONLY 7% measure discernment (the difference between believing/sharing true and false info)!! misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/what-d… Gillian Murphy Short 🧵 on why you should be measuring discernment👇👇

We checked. The Chapel Hill Police Department was *not* involved with what happened at UNC this morning. Neither was the Carrboro Police Department.

Andrew Althouse It is an interesting question, and regrettable so few (none, really) of the answers provide an argument from basic principles. Which is actually not easy.

In this vein, I think often about this Matt Graham paper. When polled, zoning/land-use policies often show substantial portions of the electorate w/out an opinion on these issues. This means that the people who do have opinions don't have strong ones! m-graham.com/papers/Graham_…

Remember what 20-30% Don't Know/No Opinion translates too:

"Combating Hateful Attitudes and Online Browsing Behavior: The Case of Antisemitism” has won the Rebecca Morton Best Article Award from JEPS! cambridge.org/core/journals/… w/@catie_bailard, Matt Graham, Rebekah Tromble + Kim Gross [1/2]

i think there should be a “don’t know/not sure” option for this question. see m-graham.com/papers/Graham_…

🗞️Paper: Are elected officials in municipal govts knowledgeable about their role and responsibilities? Adam Auerbach, Tariq Thachil and I find officials in India's small towns have strikingly low knowledge on how to govern. Paper American Political Science Review (cambridge.org/core/journals/…)

6/ P-Hacking: They then manually code 150 JMPs to document the relationship between p-hacking and academic placement. JMCs with marginally significant results were more likely to secure academic jobs, especially during the job market of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Add “Expressive Responding and Belief in 2020 Election Fraud” by Matt Graham and Omer Yair to your reading list: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Why should you clean your data with code, as opposed to manually manipulating your data in a tool like Excel? Here are a few reasons. datamgmtinedresearch.com/clean#cleaning…

In a new article in Political Communication 📓, Matt Graham and I study how to increase readership of fact-checks. It's hard! Social pressure, civic duty and small payments help; leveraging Party ID doesn't. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… Ungated: osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Peer reviewers paying zero attention to design details, part infinity

After Ken Klippenstein posted the hacked JD Vance dossier & his account was suspended, now you also cannot post the link to Ken's story "because this link has been identified by X or our partners as being potentially harmful."

X is run with more political bias than ever. This is why I am primarily on BlueSky now. It's more like old Twitter than what's left here. Come on over!

Hopefully, this does the trick! I am on the market. I do work on conflict and polarization. I am especially interested in understanding how institutions shape intergroup relations! You can read more about my work at: chagaiweiss.com

Excited to share findings from Tariq Thachil and my citizens survey on air pollution with colleagues Duke Center for International Development.

My argument is simple: people who say they want to see a return of American manufacturing don't actually vote with their dollar. Let me show you. 🧵