Prof of Comm & Media and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views are my own) ..
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Prof of Comm & Media and Polisci @UMich studying how people get & use political information and social measurement.
Competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI literacy (views are my own)
I understand, saving it as a question for the discussion section, but it’s really sad that the word “corruption” does not appear at all.
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But an important caveat …
Protests aren’t magic and there needs to be a strategy behind them.
Also, effecting change through a protest movement is a marathon, not a sprint.
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"In a Yuletide twist on trick-or-treating, men dressed as women, and vice versa, and went door-to-door demanding food or money in return for carols or Christmas wishes."
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"In a Yuletide twist on trick-or-treating, men dressed as women, and vice versa, and went door-to-door demanding food or money in return for carols or Christmas wishes."
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Yet liberalism is quite literally the only force that has historically kept the United States safe for Jews.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/u...
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My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media.
Huh? When did I say that?!
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When you don’t work on with other groups, then you’re not going to have those other groups come into your defense.“
Back in 2023 I said @rweingarten.bsky.social and Dem leaders should push Greenblatt aside. In the event, he left—after doing great damage.
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Using the full force of the government to punish perceived enemies, aid their billionaire tech cronies, and protect pedophiles, neo-Nazis, and other extremist, antisemitic hate groups.
THIS is the threat to our rights and freedoms.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...
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Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
Trump’s name was in the original release. Now, it’s blacked out.
See for yourself.
- filling out a net promoter score for the DMV
- answering the question “next time you need electricity, how likely are you to choose your utility provider?”
But big lesson is: explicit >>> implicit for behavior.
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- Beliefs held with confidence are more important for summary judgements.
- If people knew more about the Affordable Care Act, they would have liked it more.
- Greater confidence in that knowledge likely would have increased rather than decreased polarization about the law.
Bayesian approach lets us get around this.
Link to paper here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Software in pipeline.
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Happy to report our Bayesian model of the psychology of Bayesian updating is out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! (w/ Gabriel Li & Krosnick)
If you gloss over the Greek, it's a new model for how to assess the impacts of information on summary judgments.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Most of these folks’ support of this agenda is instrumental for themselves or due to misperceptions.
A sizable minority fall into this camp bc they fail to distinguish good faith criticism of 🇮🇱 from critiques that are antisemitic, thinking the latter is more common than the former.
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Can we please all agree that there are only 2 little piggies?
Went to market (piggy 1)
Stayed home (piggy 2)
Had roast beef (piggy 1)
Had none (piggy 2)
Went whee whee whee all the way home (piggy 1)
Nonsequitor with 5 of them
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#commsky