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!
Lisa Fazio@lkfazio.bsky.social · 2y agoOut 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...
Latest paper on QRPs. Something rotten in the state of Denmark? doi.org/10.1371/jour...
Is something rotten in the state of Denmark? Cross-national evidence for widespread involvement but not systematic use of questionable research practices across all fields of research
Questionable research practices (QRP) are believed to be widespread, but empirical assessments are generally restricted to a few types of practices. Furthermore, conceptual confusion is rife with use ...
doi.org
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/...
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.
wapo.st
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...
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
#Metascience #opendata #AcademicSky #edusky New piece from me and Robin Brooker on plagiarism. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...
How common is academic plagiarism?
Drawing on insights from a recent international survey on research integrity and a recent high-profile case, Nick Allum and Robin Brooker find previous work on scientific plagiarism may have undere…
blogs.lse.ac.uk
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.