Nick Allum
nallum.bsky.social
Nick Allum
@nallum.bsky.social
Quantitative social scientist. Emeritus Professor of Research Methodology, University of Essex; Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science.
I learned a lot from being one of the committee that produced this report. Please have a read!
Out now - National Academies consensus report on Understanding and Addressing Misinformation About Science 🧪

It was a privilege to serve as one of the 15 committee members from a wide range of scientific disciplines who put this report together. Quick 🧵1/

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/und...
December 20, 2024 at 9:21 PM
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Interested in measuring Attentiveness in Self-Administered Surveys? Check out our new review piece published today in Public Opinion Quarterly:
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
March 28, 2024 at 5:48 PM
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Great example of using triangulation across multiple variables to isolate a causal story. Going to be using this one for class! Polisky Giftlink
Analysis | Why are Republicans more likely to suffer hearing loss?
A new government effort to map hearing loss in America inspired us to dig deeper, revealing a surprising explanation for the partisan gap in hearing loss.
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February 13, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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Second episode on preregistration out now! We discuss preregistering exploratory vs. confirmatory research, flexibility in preregistrations, and deviations from preregistered plans. nulliusinverba.podbean.com/e/preregistr...
February 9, 2024 at 6:25 PM
New paper! Our results show a positive knowledge-attitude correlation in all but one of the 144 countries investigated. This relationship is consistent across both science literacy and self-assessed measures of science knowledge. #academicsky
Testing the cultural-invariance hypothesis: A global analysis of the relationship between scientific knowledge and attitudes to science
A substantial body of research has demonstrated that science knowledge is correlated with attitudes towards science, with most studies finding a positive relationship between the two constructs; peopl...
journals.plos.org
February 9, 2024 at 5:06 PM
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ICYMI: One Rule to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2024/02/one-...
The falling debt to GDP fiscal rule could reasonably be called the ‘reduce public investment’ rule. In government Labour has to change it, even if their only goal is to be re-elected.
February 8, 2024 at 9:17 AM