Professor of Quantitative Social Science, Department of Methodology, LSE. Tweeting mostly about methods and getting annoyed by morons.
Mar 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
4 years ago, a man smashed a window at the front of my house & entered my property while my daughter were asleep upstairs. The sound of the breaking glass woke me and I came downstairs to be confronted by an intruder in my living room. 1/n
He opened the doors at the back of the living room and fled into the garden. It was a very unsettling experience and I don't like to think about what might have happened had he not been able to escape. 2/n
Dec 14, 2018 • 17 tweets • 4 min read
So, there are problems with the analysis by @epkaufm & @Goodwinmj (K&G) in their Quillette defense of their now infamously titled @unherd event on immigration: 1/15
K&G motivate their analysis by a desire to bring evidence to a highly polarised debate and to subject the claims made by their critics to ‘measurement and data’ as opposed to ‘confirmation bias and motivated reasoning’. Hmm. 2/15
