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Ben Tappin
@benmtappin.bsky.social
• Assistant professor, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Persuasion, technology, experiments
• benmtappin.com
Have now read this paper in detail. It’s a tour de force. If you’re interested in the potential impact of AI on election outcomes you should put it by your bedside. Key takeaway: let’s remain alive to, but healthily skeptical of, the possibility of large impacts: knightcolumbia.org/content/dont...
July 20, 2025 at 12:11 PM
It’s high time we started asking the important questions
April 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
What a line

"we argue that our evidence is consistent with finding that badass TikTok edits are approximately as effective as professionally produced television ads"

doi.org/10.1177/2056...
April 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Timeline cleanse, courtesy @rmcelreath.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
“As you know, our journal receives a high volume of submissions and we can only accept a small fraction…”
February 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Covering IV, DiD, RDD with my students today (my experimentalist nerves are all over the shop)
February 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM
New paper with Luke Hewitt.

We conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of in-survey RCT pre-testing to increase the impact of public health campaigns in a pandemic.

Key takeaway: It is plausibly cost-effective & could be robustly-so, but we need more research.

osf.io/preprints/ps...
January 4, 2024 at 2:54 PM
I’m sure you’ve seen it but this paper seems relevant doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
October 29, 2023 at 7:37 AM