Philip Moniz

Ph.D. Candidate @UTAustin @UTGovernment • a pedant trying to see the big picture

[Philip Moniz @MilipPhoniz]

See the paper for more!

I had a blast writing this paper with Erin Hartman, @stephenjessee and Rodrigo Ramirez-Perez 🎉💫

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We then compare effects between “eager” and “reluctant” respondents in 50 TESS-funded experiments. We find their effects are very similar.

This suggests that even if we could get everyone to respond, we wouldn’t get different results in most social science experiments!

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By leveraging information on which respondents were recruited through a randomized non-response follow-up procedure (more effort and money) to raise response rates, we get closer than previous research to the people who refuse to take surveys.

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Would survey experiments’ results differ if we could somehow reach the 90+% people who don’t take surveys? Apparently not.

Our new paper in @polanalysis finds experimental effects on “eager” survey respondents are similar to those on “reluctant” ones.

https://t.co/PxtNbNUaG7

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@_amengel Not explicitly political psychology, but Henrich’s The WEIRDest People in the World, particularly the first 3 chapters, is a terrific exposition of how institutions, culture, and psychology interact to produce the values and norms we all take for granted and “normal.”

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@MattJ_Martin Heck yes

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This paper is the beginning of a research agenda centered on what info & beliefs shape people’s perceptions of how serious social problems are and how these shape policy support. I appreciate your reading down to this point! If you have any comments, please let me know.

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I’m happy to share that my paper on political persuasion using statistics/numerical facts is out at @apr_journal. It's about how info can change people's perceptions of problems and thereby change their policy attitudes! (1/11)

https://t.co/lZJlroPrkv

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I also show using mediation models (with sensitivity analyses) that contextualized info changed policy attitudes by first changing how serious the problem seemed. Effects on the order of 2-5 percentage points. Not huge but come from about a paragraph of dry, numerical text.

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@MattJ_Martin I guess you've *heard* of Public Law

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Some pretty incredible posters @PolMeth2022 this afternoon.

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@melissabaker712 Would you let me in too? 🎫