William Poirier
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William Poirier
@olsisblue.bsky.social
PhD. candidate (ABD) @westernupolisci.bsky.social
MA from NYU and @universitelaval.bsky.social

Check my work here https://williampo1.github.io/
Grateful to be this year’s recipient of the Dr. Harold D. Clarke Graduate Quantitative Research Methodology Fellowship. Many thanks to the awesome professors who continue to guide me through the wonders of research methods, and to the department for its ongoing support of my work! 🎉
🏅We are proud to announce that William Poirier has been awarded the Dr. Harold D. Clarke Graduate Quantitative Research Methodology Fellowship for his demonstrated ability & interest in Quantitative Research Methodology. Congratulations on a well-deserved award!
#westernu #quant #research #methods
November 10, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Just *published* our paper with @westernupolisci.bsky.social PhD student, Hunter Driggers, on LLM bias from party cues in annotation tasks. We extend a previous study showing annotation bias from human coders in the presence of party cues… LLM show similar bias 🧵:

rdcu.be/eIKCj
LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models
rdcu.be
September 29, 2025 at 9:04 PM
🚨 Nouvel article en libre accès @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social! En mise à jour d'un syllabus en méthodes? Avec @yannickdufresne.bsky.social, Anne-Sophie Charest, @skelalex.bsky.social, et @nadjim10.bsky.social, nous offrons une introduction aux enjeux de la calibration des sondages — en français! 1/4
August 19, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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July 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Reposted by William Poirier
Currently in FirstView: “Decoupling Visualization and Testing when Presenting Confidence Intervals” by David Armstrong and @olsisblue.bsky.social. They develop a way to present estimates and confidence intervals to accurately visualize the underlying pairwise tests.
March 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
It's out in @polanalysis.bsky.social! David Armstrong and I develop a way to present estimates and their CI that accurately visualizes the underlying pairwise tests. We provide packages in R and Stata, check it out!

doi.org/10.1017/pan....
doi.org
January 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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First full reversed rainbow! Hope @hankgreen.bsky.social is proud!

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December 13, 2024 at 7:38 PM