Experiments
with Sun Joo Ahn. 2013. Oxford Bibliographies Online: Communication. doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199756841-0138.
Racism in the 2012 Elections
Results of a new survey I conducted in conjunction with the Associated Press and Stanford University suggest that racial attitudes will likely hurt President Obama's reelection prospects in 2012. In general, we found that the prevalence of anti-Black attitudes increased between 2008 and 2012. Predicting the influence of racial attitudes…
Would Americans Be More Supportive of Health Care If They Knew More About It?
Since before the passage of the Affordable Care Act (a.k.a. Obamacare), it became clear that support for the health care plan (both the bill and the law) was destined to be controversial. Whereas Democrats contended that those who knew more about the bill would be more supportive, Republicans suggested that…
Quantitative Methods Across the Social Sciences
University of Michigan - This graduate-level course takes a broad look at quantitative data collection and analysis techniques used across the social sciences. Each week, we explore a specific technique (or a related set of techniques) to understand how the technique is used in practice, the assumptions that underlie its use,…
Writing the Empirical Social Science Research Paper: A Guide for the Perplexed
2012. Psychology Teacher Network, 21(4). 6.
Online weighting tool now available
With considerable help from Gaurav Sood, the online weighting tool based on anesrake is now available at http://www.stanford.edu/group/iriss/cgi-bin/anesrake/raking.php. Please feel free to use it and let me know if you run into any interface issues.
Evaluating Information
University of Michigan - Comm 211 is the quantitative reasoning course in the Communication Studies curriculum. This course teaches the fundamental thinking skills necessary for the critical evaluation of scientific arguments. The course introduces logic and quantitative reasoning concepts and asks students to apply these concepts critically. Topics include: research…
Can Marketing Data Improve Survey Sampling?
Working in conjunction with GfK (Formerly Knowledge Networks), this project explores whether ancillary data purchased from consumer marketing companies can be used to accurately identify niche populations for survey research and to produce effective survey weights. We also assess the extent to which such ancillary data may be biased and…
How Have Racial Attitudes Influenced the Obama Administration?
In 2008, many predicted that the election of Barack Obama as President of the United States would fundamentally change racial attitudes in the country. This project compares racial attitudes before the 2008 election to similar attitudes in early 2010. This project explores both (1) how society’s attitudes on race have…
Does Campaign-Specific Political Knowledge Matter?
While political scientists have long recognized the strong relationship between general political knowledge and voter turnout, less work has attempted to explore how knowing generalized political facts -- such as the proportion of Congress required to override a presidential veto -- might relate to participation. One possible mechanism linking the…