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Jens-Peter Thomsen

@jenspeterthomsen.bsky.social

Professor MSO at the Danish Center for Social Science Research. Social stratification. Educational inequality. Educational values in families. Views are my own.

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Andreas Haupt@andreashaupt.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"We find substantial grading bias in Danish reading against boys, ethnically minoritized students, and students of non-university-educated parents and in written mathematics against boys and students of non-university educated parents..." 😱 academic.oup.com/esr/advance-...

Does statistical discrimination explain grading bias? Evidence from a natural experiment

Abstract. Statistical discrimination theory suggests that discrimination arises when gatekeepers lack individual-level information and therefore draw on th

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Jens-Peter Thomsen@jenspeterthomsen.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We have a new paper out in Sociology of Education @soceducation.bsky.social on Intergenerational educational mobility in Scandinavia and the United States. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Intergenerational Educational Mobility in Scandinavia and the United States - Jens-Peter Thomsen, Stefan Bastholm Andrade, Florian R. Hertel, Max Thaning, Øyvind Nicolay Wiborg, 2026

Intergenerational educational mobility reflects a welfare state's ability to provide citizens with opportunities to climb the social ladder. Representing t...

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Tarik Abou-Chadi@tabouchadi.bsky.social · 8mo ago

EU citizens - especially those in Greenland - deserve a clear answer to the question of how EU leaders would react to attempts of the US to annex Greenland. Will there be a clear political and economic response? Or is it also going to be a "complex situation" to be "closely monitored"?

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD@epiellie.bsky.social · 10mo ago

My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.

Erik Angner@erikangner.com · 10mo ago

UPDATE: The publisher intends to retract the paper, but insists it went through two rounds of review from two independent peer reviewers: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the... by @jacksonwryan.com. No word on how they will make sure this sort of thing never happens again.

Rutger Bregman@rutgerbregman.com · 10mo ago

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

Martin Kolk@martinkolk.bsky.social · last yr.

I think these types of criticisms of quantitative models in the social sciences are largely on point. My solution would be to rely more on simple descriptive and large high powered studies to build robust findings, before moving towards more complicated (and much more fragile) designs.

Ryan Briggs@ryancbriggs.net · last yr.

I think the current state of social science research is pretty bad and I wrote something for @asteriskmag.bsky.social about it. asteriskmag.com/issues/10/ca...

Text from an article: Given the current state of evidence production in the social sciences, I believe that many - perhaps most - attempts to use social scientific evidence to inform policy will not lead to better outcomes. This is not because of politics or the challenges of scaling small programs. The problem is more immediate. Much of social science research is of poor quality, and sorting the trustworthy work from bad work is difficult, costly, and time-consuming.
Michelle Kelly-Irving@mkellyirving.bsky.social · last yr.

6k euro to publish a paper in Lancet Public Health Let’s just sit & think about that Students & post docs need these publications for their career Our institutions, who don’t fund us properly, want us to publish in these journals We raise the cash, do the research & reviewing for these journals

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jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · last yr.

Fun read for sociologists: Apparently Granovetter's "The Strength of Weak Ties," the most cited paper in sociology, was initially rejected from the American Sociological Review. The reviews are a wild slice of disciplinary history. If you're ever dealing w nasty reviews, this could be reassuring...

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