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Emily Thorson

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Political science, Syracuse University Information effects, misperceptions, egg sandwiches

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I can tell this is staged because nobody has EVER put the whiteboard in that part of Eggers 100 in the history of teaching.

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Shana spotting at 2:50!!!

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I actually know (because IRB) -- a non-PSC grad student (who is not at Syracuse).

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Just took a survey that included this measure of ideology 😮

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This should be front-and-center in every “hey why are so many VCs backing Trump this time” article. Joe Biden has spent 3.5 years rebuilding administrative capacity. We now have regulators actually saying “hey knock it off that’s illegal.” The VCs would much prefer autocracy to accountability.

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wait so you are telling me that speeding cameras may ALSO catch people who are drunk and/or unlicensed in addition to speeding? wow yes that sounds really terrible.

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actual lol at "mild speeding." mild robbery mild assault mild manslaughter

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Do people still use evite for party inviting purposes or is there something new/better?

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Congratulations to @aecoppock.bsky.social whose book, “Persuasion in Parallel,” has won the Robert E. Lane Best Book Award from the APSA Political Psychology Section!  Thanks to Margit Tavits and Josh Gubler for serving on the committee.

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Good thread that gets at why it’s important to present Trump’s crimes as a single coherent story rather than as fragmented individual ones.

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ICYMI yesterday - why we need to rethink how we understand the harms of online misinformation.

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[emails nature to see if this can be added as Figure 2]

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New paper on what public discourse gets wrong about misinformation. We push back on causal claims about harms from mass exposure to social media misinfo. Instead, we argue for focusing on exposure/effects on the fringe -- and, importantly, in non-US contexts. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Same with "I show that this prominent theory still works in this completely different, but very important, context that did not even exist when the theory was invented."

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Why going back into the field with surveys *right now* -- especially so-called panel-backs where previous respondents are recontacted -- can help answer two of the biggest questions in election survey research. A thread.

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News orgs writing headlines about the conviction like “Will it Matter?” as if whether it matters is unrelated to coverage asking whether it matters. Whether it matters is UP TO YOU, bozos. Cover it like it does and it will.

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Thanks Drew! I think the ungated/two week free period should start next week and I'll make sure to post the link.

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Good question -- here are the policies that we ask about for the DV.

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Americans tend to over-estimate low-end incomes. Would their attitudes toward redistribution (to the working poor) change if we told them the real incomes of low-wage jobs?

@emilythorson.bsky.social and I try to find out and conclude it probably would not make a difference. doi.org/10.1177/1532...

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One more interesting aspect of this paper: it's a pre-registered replication of an experiment run almost ten years previously, where there WAS an effect. What do we make of this difference? We have some thoughts...

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We also examine specific potential mechanisms: does wage information have a bigger impact if you personally know someone in those jobs? If there's an explicit contrast made with high-income wages? If we ask them to guess before giving them the correct info? Nope, nope, and nope.

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Big news, the Kennedy sign in front of the house down the street has been taken down as of yesterday.

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Exposure to investigative reporting "made respondents more willing to hold the incumbent mayor accountable for neglecting public infrastructure, to support a pro-spending challenger candidate, and to directly support a costly public spending measure."

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I am optimistic about this getting sorted -- so far I think both the students and the administration have been respectful of each other and open to making constructive progress. I really hope that continues.

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3) Enter into good-faith negotiations with them in regard to their list of requests (this can go along with #1 and #2).

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2) Make them part of commencement. Be proud to have activist students standing up for what they believe. Surround the encampment with banners proclaiming "Syracuse University Supports Free Speech." Have the Tully Center co-sponsor a commencement event with them.

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1) Rather than asking the encampment to move, move commencement to one of the other many lovely spaces at Syracuse University.

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Apparently S.U. administration has asked our encampment to leave before commencement (dailyorange.com/2024/05/enca...). They have refused. I'm just going to note here a list of other things administration could do INSTEAD of calling the cops and/or issuing violations, in case anyone is listening.

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I'm probably a bad person weigh in on this question since I have an whole unit in one of my classes entitled "How to make graphs that aren't terrible." Perhaps I have too low of a bar...

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My kids were very very into the “ordinary people change the world” series from about ages 3-5. Some are political, some are less so. Their faves were Abraham Lincoln and Sonia sotomayor.

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Hooray! @emayfarris.bsky.social and I have a chapter in this fantastic book on "Supplementing Qualitative Work with Surveys, and Vice Versa." We walk through (with lots of examples) using open-ended survey questions to collect qualitative data, using qual work to inform survey design, and more!

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My book, The Invented State: Policy Misperceptions in the American Public, is now available as an audiobook! www.amazon.com/Invented-Sta... (read by an actual professional narrator, NOT by me)

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Just noticed that my new book is scheduled to drop *on my actual birthday*!!

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After years of taking surveys on YouGov, MTurk, Cloud, and DLABSS, it's finally happened: a co-author's name on the consent form. Demand effects FTW! (don't worry, I didn't actually take it)

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It's been awhile since I posted a confusing survey question, but this one is a real head-scratcher.

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I feel like I spend a lot of time lately advising grad students to simplify their experiments, drop unnecessary conditions, sharpen the theory, eliminate unnecessary covariates. It’s good to keep it straightforward!

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