Josh Pasek
@joshpasek.com
Prof of Comm & Media and Polisci @Umich studying how people get and use political information and social measurement.
Skills/competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI (views are my own)
Skills/competencies: data sci, DIY solar, election analytics, carpooling, #polcom, #polpsych, survey methods, AI (views are my own)
Many of these are reasonable too, but the term limits on members of Congress one turns out to be a really bad idea given the research.
November 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Many of these are reasonable too, but the term limits on members of Congress one turns out to be a really bad idea given the research.
As a note, the survey is still in the field, but we presented these preliminary results today at the Provost's Seminar on Teaching.
November 10, 2025 at 8:34 PM
As a note, the survey is still in the field, but we presented these preliminary results today at the Provost's Seminar on Teaching.
These results echo longstanding findings that students overestimate drinking and sex among their peers and can actually conform to their own misestimations.
The implication is that if instructors could make norms clear, they could massively tamp down on misuse!
The implication is that if instructors could make norms clear, they could massively tamp down on misuse!
November 10, 2025 at 8:29 PM
These results echo longstanding findings that students overestimate drinking and sex among their peers and can actually conform to their own misestimations.
The implication is that if instructors could make norms clear, they could massively tamp down on misuse!
The implication is that if instructors could make norms clear, they could massively tamp down on misuse!
::breathes a sigh of relief::
I had said this was probably the case the a reporter, but didn't have any numbers to back it up.
I had said this was probably the case the a reporter, but didn't have any numbers to back it up.
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 PM
::breathes a sigh of relief::
I had said this was probably the case the a reporter, but didn't have any numbers to back it up.
I had said this was probably the case the a reporter, but didn't have any numbers to back it up.
I'll add:
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
The strength of weak ties (Granovetter)
But the actual impact often gets massively oversimplified.
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
The strength of weak ties (Granovetter)
But the actual impact often gets massively oversimplified.
November 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I'll add:
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
The strength of weak ties (Granovetter)
But the actual impact often gets massively oversimplified.
Bowling Alone (Putnam)
The strength of weak ties (Granovetter)
But the actual impact often gets massively oversimplified.
The problem is that the empirics are incapable of giving an answer.
Everything in this environment is so multicollinear and bidirectionally caused that teasing it out is not fully possible.
At the end of the day, we’re all parsing identification signals far weaker than the errors in the data.
Everything in this environment is so multicollinear and bidirectionally caused that teasing it out is not fully possible.
At the end of the day, we’re all parsing identification signals far weaker than the errors in the data.
November 3, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The problem is that the empirics are incapable of giving an answer.
Everything in this environment is so multicollinear and bidirectionally caused that teasing it out is not fully possible.
At the end of the day, we’re all parsing identification signals far weaker than the errors in the data.
Everything in this environment is so multicollinear and bidirectionally caused that teasing it out is not fully possible.
At the end of the day, we’re all parsing identification signals far weaker than the errors in the data.
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Once again, the Actual Thing the Actual Democrats Must Actually Do is to make institutional reform the platform & to explain to voters why & how Doing A Popularism is the <consequence> of that, not a prerequisite.
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
👇🎯💯
Again, the needs to be & all the committees & commissions that want to Do A Popularism & focus on Kitchen Table Issues are engaged in a category mistake about What Democrats Must Do the next time they ever have power.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Once again, the Actual Thing the Actual Democrats Must Actually Do is to make institutional reform the platform & to explain to voters why & how Doing A Popularism is the <consequence> of that, not a prerequisite.
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HE. FUCKING. KNEW. FOR. YEARS.
October 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
HE. FUCKING. KNEW. FOR. YEARS.
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
"Such is their fear of jail, bankruptcy or reprisal, that most people I spoke to insisted on anonymity. This was in spite of the fact that many of the same people said Trump would only be restrained by powerful voices standing up to him." My Weekend FT essay. Please read it. on.ft.com/4hqblpr
The Trump Supremacy
[FREE TO READ] Opponents in disarray, allies in line, followers enthralled — the US president is already on his way to building a new world order
on.ft.com
October 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism