Interesting how political knowledge is so uniform by party...age and education effects cancel out? pewresearch.org/politics/2018/…
Fascinating.
Is "risk-aversion" the relevant difference? It sounds more like "trying to maximize your score vs. trying to maximize the honesty of your answers".
Like neither are "risking" anything. Is it a consistent finding? Do men systematically do better when there's no guessing penalty?
Apparently true in Taiwan too (both the guessing thing, and men still having higher average knowledge accounting for it). cambridge.org/core/journals/…
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New post on revisiting the famous post-2016 "economic issues vs. social issues" scatterplot. medium.com/@xenocryptsite…
You have probably seen this chart over the last four years. I like it, and the analysis it's from! But what I don't like is how, because the chart itself is not very annotated, people can and do read whatever they want into it.
Like you'll see people say, I don't know, "Democrats lose because of pronouns, and my proof is, this chart". The chart does not have anything to do with pronouns, but it IS a chart.
Tangent but IIRC "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" was mostly shot in Cleveland but seems convincing-ish as a DC movie...to me, who has barely been to DC...
IDK about this as a bellwether for the following year.
Is there any research on how well-correlated "nonpartisan in name only" elections tend to be with partisan ones?
Actually when is the last time the D-aligned candidate did NOT win Wisconsin Superintendent Of Public Instruction? (It looks to me like Herbert Glover, John Benson, Elizabeth Burmaster, and of course Tony Evers were the "Dane County" candidates...)