@AirCanada I have already tried DM’ing you. Please respond! Your multi-hour delays have us missing the last connection to our final destination, adding nearly 16 hours worth of total delays to our trip!! Please help.
#ERSNew 🐣
How might a collective sense of discrimination amongst Asian Americans shape their racial ideology? In this study, @RyanGibsonPHD assesses how a sense of threat impacts Asian American social boundaries. @Routledge_Socio
https://t.co/t8YNZoCKGs
"In many governments the candidates for the highest stations are above the law; and, if they can attain the object of their ambition, they have no fear of being called to account for the means by which they acquired it.
TIL how to simulate data in a Qualtrics survey. Click on Tools >> Review >> Generate Test Responses. And then you can create up to 1,000 responses. This has been REALLY useful when planning data analysis for pre-registrations and has become a staple in my routine (h/t Em Reit)
"a key job of a school is to give students new things to love — an exciting field of study, new friends. ...what teachers really teach is themselves — their contagious passion for their subjects and students."
https://t.co/GK52BKiQcG
Financial markets tied to future weather outcomes follow climate model predictions & not shorter-term variation in observed weather. When money is at stake, agents accurately anticipate warming trends in line with scientific consensus
#SocSciResearch
https://t.co/jzDyUS7cpu
'Was it autoethnography? The classificatory, confessional and mad politics of lived experience in sociological research' by @Brigit_McWade https://t.co/FfI0v4ChV4
With more to come!
Does anyone else ever get sent an entire thesis or book to read and comment on...from a stranger...someone you don't know or have never met? Please, please, please don't do this to me! I have a full-time job with my own mentees and PG students #wellbeing
Framing is so important to these debates, yet so rarely discussed explicitly. We often assume differences as being just because, but using #socialscience terminology with purpose can bring clarity to why reasonable people can disagree -with themselves - so strongly. #sociology
Check out how much support shifts on #MedicareForAll" when arguments are presented, rising from 56% to 71% ("guarantee health insurance as a right for all Americans) but dropping to 26% ("lead to delays in people getting some medical tests and treatments"). These are big shifts!
Does raising the minimum wage systematically decrease employment?
Nope.
Evidence (by @arindube, @ben_zipperer, et al.): "The Effect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs: Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator"
#SocSciResearch
https://t.co/g6tpAT7dMi
My paper with @ScottFAbramson is out at @qjps_editors! We develop a new measure of document similarity to compare the constitutions of the world. We show that the U.S. Constitution has become an outlier among world constitutions.
https://t.co/UL1yEECWNb
🚨New WP on risks & benefits of #nudges, #norms, and ‘norm-nudges’🚨
w/ @cbicchieri (@Penn, @PennMBDS, @Wharton)
Paper: https://t.co/kPiRjGMDh8
Sharing & comments appreciated - hopefully insightful for researchers and practitioners alike.
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Evidence from Senate campaigns that negative ads are more effective than positive ones—and that campaign's ads are more effective than PAC's ads. https://t.co/YDXpC7OnkZ