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Why a new version of my 2019 book, Red State Christians: a #thread for #launchday
Link to new version: bookshop.org/books/red-stat… (also available on @amazon and @BNBuzz + an indy bookstore near you (my favorite!))
Link to new version: bookshop.org/books/red-stat… (also available on @amazon and @BNBuzz + an indy bookstore near you (my favorite!))
I spent 2018 traveling across America interviewing Christians in red states + counties to unpack Christian support for Trump in 2016.
Hillbilly Elegy by @JDVance1 had recently pubbed, and a certain sort of apologist narrative for white rural Americans was en vogue ...
Hillbilly Elegy by @JDVance1 had recently pubbed, and a certain sort of apologist narrative for white rural Americans was en vogue ...
This narrative had some merit (I've seen rural despair firsthand, + the ravages of the #opioidepidemic) - but it was often too shallow, and it lacked the theological depth that understood the role of religion + God in @GOP support for Trump
For #DeclareDesign #launchday, here’s a thread about our five #rstats packages for research design and analysis: DeclareDesign, fabricatr, estimatr, randomizr, and DesignLibrary.
5 📦’s in 5 📣’s!
@graemedblair @jasperjcooper @maqartan
5 📦’s in 5 📣’s!
@graemedblair @jasperjcooper @maqartan
DeclareDesign is “ggplot for research designs.” You add together design elements – data generating processes, sampling and assignment schemes, and estimators to declare a design. declaredesign.org/r/declaredesig… 
fabricatr simulates fake data to help imagine your data before you collect it, especially hierarchical data common in the social sciences (students in classes in schools). Aaron Rudkin and Neal Fultz deserve big credit for development. declaredesign.org/r/fabricatr/
