A piece I wrote on the 'protest vote bias': Three ways that an inclination to protest vote (to vote for a 3rd party with no chance or to not vote at all) could be due to cognitive errors www.pressherald.com?p=7367476&uu...
When you enter the voting booth on Election Day, boycotting the viable candidates isn’t going to help. Whether you like it or not, one of them is going to win.
Pls re-skeet for reach: CALL FOR PAPERS for a special issue of EER in honor of Nora Szech editors: S. Huck, N. Schweizer, M. Serra-Garcia #econskywww.sciencedirect.com/journal/euro...
Excellent piece by Sam Borne (Bowdoin '26). The kids are alright! 👏🙏 bowdoinorient.com/2024/09/13/g...
Americans are worried about the future of our #Democracy#DemocracyReform#FusionVoting@nedfoley.bsky.socialelectionlawblog.org?p=144435
Here’s an excerpt from the letter, released yesterday: With partisan polarization at dysfunctional highs, public faith in the political system hitting dangerous lows, and two unpopular presidential ca...
Grants up to $200k from the Alliance for Decision Education on teaching judgment and decision-making to K-12 students, deadline 11/10 alliancefordecisioneducation.org/alliance-for...
We're proud to announce the Alliance for Decision Education Research Grant, which propels the field of Decision Education by supporting researchers working to understand and improve decision-making in...
Russia paying millions to right-wing US influencers isn't election deciding on its own. But Russia knows that. "If these violations of our laws and sovereignty don't swing the presidency they don't matter" is absurd. I break down how Russia's influence operations work in @thebulwark.bsky.social.
Foreign influence brings out our worst tendencies—and makes them seem normal.
A method to limit disinformation spread on social media by ex-ante content moderation using network characteristics of news initiators to swiftly detect disinformation, from Adrian Casillas, Maryam Farboodi, Layla Hashemi, Maryam Saeedi, and Steven Wilson https://www.nber.org/papers/w32896
Glad to hear helpful and nice, hadn't realized you were Colby guy - lots of good profs from there (afraid you've got Bowdoin beat in that dept :))
Not sure you want to see this :) but it's an interesting question and I was curious to work it out... Did it quickly but numbers are reasonable. Market implied probability that T loses popular vote given that he wins election is 58% (and that H loses pop vote given she wins election is 7.2%)
Did you feel unsafe there?