Sean Westwood (@seanjwestwood) 's Twitter Profile
Sean Westwood

@seanjwestwood

Boring. Can't model for shit. Political Scientist

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Andy Hall (@ahall_research) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am hiring for two full-time pre-doctoral research fellows, to start this coming summer. One fellow will focus on American democracy, while the other will focus on technology, governance, and society. If you are a current or recent undergrad with strong technical skills and no

Sean Westwood (@seanjwestwood) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The majority of Americans think Trump will not concede if he loses (12% of Democrats and 38% of Republicans) BUT belief that Kamala will concede if she loses is also low (86% of Democrats and 43% of Republicans) Likely a lot of expressive responding, but not ideal

The majority of Americans think Trump will not concede if he loses (12% of Democrats and 38% of Republicans)

BUT belief that Kamala will concede if she loses is also low (86% of Democrats and 43% of Republicans)

Likely a lot of expressive responding, but not ideal
Polarization Research Lab (@prl_tweets) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hire Derek! We've been incredibly grateful to have him at PRL. A fantastic, hard-working researcher plus a great colleague and person. Learn more about his work 👇

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In our latest Path to 2024 report, we find that Americans are worried about the future of democracy (44%) but less so than 2 years ago (58%). Republicans are more concerned and more resigned to the end of democracy. Yphtach Lelkes Sean Westwood Full report: prlpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Aug202…

In our latest Path to 2024 report, we find that Americans are worried about the future of democracy (44%) but less so than 2 years ago (58%). Republicans are more concerned and more resigned to the end of democracy. <a href="/ylelkes/">Yphtach Lelkes</a> <a href="/seanjwestwood/">Sean Westwood</a> 
Full report: prlpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/Aug202…
Michael Jankowski (@michaelj505) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is a study robust when its findings depend on the inclusion of a single observation? In a new report, Benjamin Guinaudeau and I discuss this question based on the replication of an American Political Science Review article. A thread on our main findings.

Neil Malhotra (@namalhotra) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In his dissertation, my graduate student showed that political endorsements by scientific publications: (1) don't convince anyone about politics; (2) make people less likely to believe scientists when it comes to vaccines, health advisories, etc. nature.com/articles/s4156…

Paul Novosad (@paulnovosad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Science is mostly government funded. Republicans control the government about half of the time. If scientists can't stop talking about how much they hate Republicans, they will not keep getting funded. You don't have to like it, it's foolish to ignore it.

Arthur Spirling (@arthur_spirling) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yes. Brandon Stewart and I make similar point here: arthurspirling.org/documents/what… People can and should publish explorations; no need (and actually bad) to dress it up as “testing” something

Sean Westwood (@seanjwestwood) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There is a lot to worry about this election, but right now concerns about political violence might be a distraction. nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/… Also, check out our weekly survey showing how flat support for political violence actually is: americaspoliticalpulse.com/citizens/

Derek Holliday (@d_e_holliday) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨New Publication!🚨 Out now ahead of print at Election Law Journal with Justin Grimmer Yphtach Lelkes and Sean Westwood : "Who Are the Election Skeptics? Evidence from the 2022 Midterm Elections" liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10…

🚨New Publication!🚨
Out now ahead of print at <a href="/ElectionLawJrnl/">Election Law Journal</a>  with <a href="/JustinGrimmer/">Justin Grimmer</a> <a href="/ylelkes/">Yphtach Lelkes</a> and <a href="/seanjwestwood/">Sean Westwood</a> : "Who Are the Election Skeptics? Evidence from the 2022 Midterm Elections"

liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10…
Eiko Fried (@eikofried) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So apparently this recent paper showing that open science practices can help increase replicability was just retracted by Nature Human Behavior. Reason appears to be that authors could not find their preregistration? nature.com/articles/s4156…

So apparently this recent paper showing that open science practices can help increase replicability was just retracted by Nature Human Behavior. 

Reason appears to be that authors could not find their preregistration?

nature.com/articles/s4156…
Yphtach Lelkes (@ylelkes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New with the amazing Nic Dias and Jake Pearl: American partisans under-estimate the diversity of each party's attitudes, and these diversity perceptions predict out-party hostility. However, we see little evidence that partisans over-estimate out-party extremity.

Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This retraction saga is such a mess. Setting aside the irony (about how an article championing pregregistration failed to preregister the hypotheses), there are so many other problems. Harassing people for legitimate criticism has no place in science. chronicle.com/article/this-s…

This retraction saga is such a mess.

Setting aside the irony (about how an article championing pregregistration failed to preregister the hypotheses), there are so many other problems.

Harassing people for legitimate criticism has no place in science.
chronicle.com/article/this-s…