Agnar F. Helgason

PhD in Political Science with interests in
comparative political economy, political behavior & methodology. See @aggiflinki for my Icelandic alter ego.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Dear rest-of-the-world:

He's not speaking for us.

Sincerely,

Americans

[Nate Cohn @Nate_Cohn]

First poll on the Trump refugee/immigration order: Support 48, Oppose 41. https://t.co/7tqz3aZANj

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

How Clinton's and Trump's convention speeches compared to those of their predecessors https://t.co/3OF63B6oWx

[Counting Counts @electsystblog]

New measure of income-based #voting in @afhelgason’s analysis of electoral systems &welfare policies. https://t.co/N9fl9blUR4 for our review

[Doug Mataconis @dmataconis]

What if Hitler became an evil monster because of all of the time travelers who tried to kill him as a child?

[Sona Golder @sonagolder]

Written by a biologist, but seems applicable for political science as well. https://t.co/5FbcbkDbpW

[Jake Brewer @jakebrewer]

What every teacher and administrator in that school should have said. https://t.co/4pxUHcNFAI

[Christopher Ingraham🦗 @_cingraham]

2015 so far: 238 days, 247 mass shootings http://t.co/VTmaNTbz8V

[Robin Hanson @robinhanson]

The more people know about a topic, they more they are willing to pretend to know things about it they don't know. http://t.co/6WgkBdrKHs

[Research Wahlberg @ResearchMark]

Sup.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Pretty good career (and life) advice for academics: http://t.co/ynzt8WQlKN

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Frank Underwood becomes president of FIFA in season 4. #spoilers

[Chris Blattman @cblatts]

What happens to a scientist's career following a retraction? The timely study http://t.co/HxxFtxVc3W

[Science of Us @thescienceofus]

How a graduate student reluctantly uncovered a huge scientific fraud: http://t.co/HeeM8lP2ee

[Adrianna McIntyre (@adrianna.bsky.social) @onceuponA]

This damning review of widely-praised ethnographic book On the Run really is something: http://t.co/rWfGml3wm4 (h/t @haroldpollack)

[Branko Milanovic @BrankoMilan]

Real per capita income increase in %, US 2010-13 (new @lisdata based on revised CPS data w/o top coding)