📣„What polarizes citizens? An explorative analysis of 817 attitudinal items from a non-random online panel in Germany”, a new survey by @cteney.bsky.social@gpietran.bsky.social@plos.bsky.socialjournals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Various studies point to the lack of evidence of distributive opinion polarization in Europe. As most studies analyse the same item batteries from international social surveys, this lack of polarizati...
We ( @torkildl.bsky.social@eivindy.bsky.social@tibaier.bsky.social@kph3k.bsky.socialrdcu.be/dv1sp let me walk you trough it in a thread 1/?
MORE THAN NATURE AND NURTURE? In a new Nature Human Behavior paper, we probe the origins of indirect genetic effects on educational achievement in Norway. We found they are more due to dynastic processes than to nurture processes. Here's a thread, with slight emphasis on the sociology of it. [1/9]
Our article on “More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children’s academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes” is now out in Nature Human Behavior: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Using a unique high-quality dataset of 37,000 parent–offspring trios, the authors probe the mechanisms of the so-called indirect genetic effects on educational attainment. Surprisingly, they find th...
Using Sequence Analysis and wondering about within-cluster heterogeneity? Raffaella Piccarreta and I put together some strategies to visualise and distinguish the features of regular and deviant cases within clusters on European Journal of Population link.springer.com/article/10.1...
My book “Repression in the Digital Age” is out tomorrow with OUP! ✨✨✨ You can order it here (and there is a lil' savings code in the picture they sent me 😊): global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Genes and Equality of Opportunity: Lessons from a highly egalitarian country New working paper by @janierola.net@tibaier.bsky.social#Sociology#Demography#AcademicSkyosf.io/preprints/so...
Headlines Labeled as AI-Generated Are Less Likely to Be Believed and Shared, Even When True or Human-Generated New paper with @sachaltay.bsky.socialosf.io/preprints/ps... polisky commsky
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