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Brendan, Jaime, Magdalena, Olivier and I have been working on this paper for six years and it is finally out. Brendan summarized the findings but I wanted to speak to the process/design. We started off wanting to reduce misinfo exposure -- BUT that is challenging because...

Why doesn't the debate around declining test scores mention the switch to computerized (rather than paper) testing as a another cause? My kids find computer testing challenging, and research backs this up (e.g. direct.mit.edu/edfp/article..., www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Pencils Down? Computerized Testing and Student AchievementAbstract. Computer-based testing (CBT) is becoming an increasingly popular format of assessment in educational settings. If students face a digital divide in terms of access to computers at school and...direct.mit.edu

My first PhD advisee, Sarah Elizabeth Hogenboom-Jones, has successfully defended her fantastic dissertation. Sarah developed and validated new measures of short video platform usage (e.g. TikTok and IG Reels) and investigated how those platforms can reinforce social identities.

ENDORSE. It is very frustrating as a reviewer to spend so much time checking for fidelity -- this takes away from time I could be spending giving more substantive feedback.

I put together this "experiment checklist" for the grad students in my experiments class -- practical advice for experimental design. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/lwbco...

This semester I asked my class to tell me all the ways they might use AI to help them with their final paper. I wrote them all down, and now am evaluating each potential usage on two dimensions: (1) does it do a good job and (2) would using it negatively impact their learning.

Can anyone point me to a credible estimate of how much ICE operations are costing taxpayers per day? Either in general or Minneapolis-specific.

The 7yo and 9yo are totally enthralled by William Steig's "CDB!" A true classic.

Love a concise Amazon review.

Guys today is a red-letter day for bad survey questions. Look at this lovely double negative that just rolled in!

for everyone teaching survey design this fall, great news: a new terrible question example just dropped! (this is from a real survey I just took) 😱

From a Washington Post reader survey I just took. What a bizarre list of job titles. Also I love the idea that it's critically important to distinguish between the Presidents and Vice Presidents among their readership. TOTALLY different news preferences.

I'm pretty over the doomsaying/complaining about AI and student learning and interested in moving on to the "solutions" part. In-class writing (by hand!) exercises, non-generic paper topics, etc. We can adapt! It might even be fun!

There is NOTHING on the front page of Fox News about the stock market crash. Nothing at all.

Pretty horrifying how well the "need for chaos" survey battery describes the Trump/Musk administration's current approach to governing. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is why every political scientist you know has been in a state of panic for the past week. This isn't about policy disagreement, it's about the Constitution being destroyed before our very eyes.

Imagine: in his first week in office, Biden issues an executive order to cut all military R&D. He tells George Soros to carry it out, giving him access to the personal financial information of all military employees. Thousands of soldiers and contractors lose their jobs. This. Would. Be. ILLEGAL. 🧵

"When the Press Fails," published in 1990, predicts exactly the situation we're in now. Because the Democrats are largely silent about the Billionaire's Coup, the media don't have "two sides" to cover and so default to repeating whatever line the government feeds them. This is called "indexing."

The sparse news coverage that exists of the Billionaire's Coup is, frankly, incomprehensible to a lay audience. "Treasury payment system" is meaningless jargon to most people. Tell people in plain language "Here is what Trump and Musk are doing, and here is how it affects Americans."

Hey Republicans in Congress: it’s your very last chance to go down in history as heroes, not villains. Get on the group chat, make a plan, stick together, turn this around.