🚨WP🚨 Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right? WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)! 🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers 🡆Effect lasts 2+mo 🡆Works on entrenched beliefs osf.io/preprints/psya…

"Estimators for Topic-Sampling Designs" is now out in Political Analysis DOI: doi.org/10.1017/pan.20… In this paper, we motivate and justify hierarchical models for analyzing experiments that assign respondents to several designs in parallel--what we call "topic sampling."

#FirstView from American Political Science Review - Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive - cup.org/3ymDsU9 - Jae-Hee Jung & Scott Clifford

This is bad! But hardly ushered in by MTurk. And pinning it on MTurk just encourages reliance on sample as a (poor) heuristic for study quality.

The Survey Research Center (SRC) at the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University seeks postdoctoral research associates in the areas of survey design, survey experiments, and methodology. higheredjobs.com/details.cfm?Jo… #PAJobMarket

New Paper! 🎉 "Power Rules: Practical Statistical Power Calculations" Among other things, I write about how researchers might use pilot data to inform power calculations. The paper is an early version, but I welcome feedback. GitHub: github.com/carlislerainey…

What's the current status of causal inference in political science? Since the advent of the credibility revolution social scientists pay more attention to establishing cause-and-effect relationships. But how has poli sci responded to the new methods and trends? (1/n)

Check out “Generalizing Survey Experiments Using Topic Sampling: An Application to Party Cues” by Scott Clifford, mastodon.social/@thosjleeper and Carlisle Rainey. Read it here: link.springer.com/article/10.100…

We are seeking to hire an Assistant Professor of American Politics. Please see the link for a full posting of the job ad. uhs.taleo.net/careersection/…

❓Are attitudes toward groups influenced by information about the groups' policy views? Are group sentiments exogenous? ➡️ Using three survey experiments, Scott Clifford Elizabeth Simas & JeongKyu Suh give us the answer 👉cambridge.org/core/journals/… #FirstView #OpenAccess