Yes! Boykoff and Boykoff. We were building on their work. Thanks for connecting us.

There are plenty of other descriptive findings in the new article that journalists, policymakers, or scholars might find interesting, but I'm most struck by the way journalists choose to report on issues where there is a scientific consensus. bit.ly/4mc2gBj

This was true in our survey experiment for both arms control issues and trade issues, and it was true whether the experts were IR scholars or economists. The source of variation that has been previously documented in empirical studies appears to be driven by the reporting choices of journalists.

(1) When there is overwhelming (93%) consensus among an expert community, and (2) when experts are evenly split on the wisdom of some policy. We find that foreign policy journalists overrepresent dissenters by a large amount in the face of expert consensus.

In earlier research, we (TRIP Project at @wm.edu) documented a similar pattern in discussions about the Iraq War. In this new article, we survey foreign policy journalists to understand how they source expert opinion in two conditions:

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Awesome. I saw the same thing this summer and was also happy. Now, do positive externalities of nuclear war.

Love this paper. @yoncita.bsky.social, @ryanamusto.bsky.social, @global-wm.bsky.social

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