Can you trust international surveys?
Place your bets now. How much does someone’s world view predict their other attitudes?
You funded these clinical trials, but you’ll never know what they found.
Where’s the partisan polarization on abortion?
Political scientists are debating how to make research more transparent. Here’s a way forward.
Maybe college football doesn’t affect presidential elections after all.
Guess who used to be okay with the death penalty?
Has Britain’s Labour party already lost the 2020 election?
When good governments (or any governments) base policies on bad research
Why do people on the other side seem so unreasonable?
Essentialism and racial bias jointly contribute to the categorization of multiracial individuals
Andrew:
Comments are closed on the death penalty article on the sister blog, so I am posting here. Can you explain why the top graph shows an increase in overall support for the death penalty from 1965-1985, but no increase for any subgroup in the graph at the bottom?
Gdanning:
Top graph shows national average over time. Bottom graph shows groups relative to the national average.
Andrew, would you update any of your answers to the questions in the Bernie 2016 article?
I’m curious about that as well.
The college football affects elections study is a pretty good example of Comedy Social Science, where everything is the hidden cause of everything else (as opposed to Tragedy social science, where you just resign yourself to everything being the way it is):
https://spottedtoad.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/social-sciences-two-masks/
From [here](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/08/17/can-bernie-win-in-2016/):
> LMK: Could Sanders stand up against Donald Trump if they were to run against each other in a general election?
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> AG: I think the chance of a Sanders-Trump matchup is so low that we don’t have to think too hard about this one!
What about now?