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Alex Coppock
@aecoppock.bsky.social
Associate Professor (on term) of Political Science at Yale University alexandercoppock.com Persuasion in Parallel: alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2023.html Research Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign: book.declaredesign.org
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Friends, please encourage your students to consider a pre-doctoral fellowship with me working on meta-analyses of political science experiments. I promise a good trade of money and skills in exchange for effort and time! tobin.yale.edu/opportunitie...

Position description: The goal of this project is to produce generalizable answers to social scientific questions through ``meta-reanalysis,'' a design in which original study datasets are re-analyzed using standardized tools and the resulting re-analyses are formally synthesized through meta-analysis. Building on the Coppock's previous meta-analytic work on persuasion, candidate choice, and discrimination, this project seeks to establish the external validity of research findings in select literatures, including for a start, the experimental record on the effects of group cues and perspective taking. The key contribution of this project is the approach to the generalizability problem, the concern that the results of any particular study might not travel to other contexts and times. The lab's design- based approach is grounded in the principles of commensurability, transparency, and collaboration.
REQUISITE SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS: The main tasks will fall into three categories: 1. Data cleaning and preparation. All-data related tasks will be done in R, in the "tidyverse" style, so familiarity with R and tidyverse coding is preferred. 2. Design-aware literature review. We only include primary studies that adhere to particular designs, so exposure to and familiarity with experimental designs in political science is preferred. 3. Data collection via communication with primary study authors. We need to ask primary study authors to share their data with us, which requires a polite and prompt emailing style.
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(friends, please also prepare yourself for an onslaught of "polite and prompt" emails asking you to share your datasets if you haven't already posted them!)

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Also check out this opportunity from my colleagues @jkalla.bsky.socialbsky.app/profile/jkal...

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Wish some of my undergrads here at Temple were further along --- will have some great ones for ya in a couple of years!

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When I recently did this activity for a paper, my co-author and I immediately regretted not randomising the use of some language in our prompt & polite emails. When we sent polite follow ups signalling that we'd indicate in our appendix that requests were denied, we saw some significant movement...

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Are you able to take people w/out citizenship or green cards?

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Alex Coppock
@aecoppock.bsky.social
Associate Professor (on term) of Political Science at Yale University alexandercoppock.com Persuasion in Parallel: alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2023.html Research Design: Declaration, Diagnosis, and Redesign: book.declaredesign.org
1.4k followers1.1k following286 posts
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