🤯 Wow--truly humbled by this! #1 in the category of Social Sciences Research. Many sincere thanks to all those who've purchased "Truth Addict." I am immensely grateful and sincerely hope you are finding it useful, informative, and maybe even a little bit fun🙏

🤯 Wow--truly humbled by this! #1 in the category of Social Sciences Research. Many sincere thanks to all those who've purchased "Truth Addict." I am immensely grateful and sincerely hope you are finding it useful, informative, and maybe even a little bit fun🙏

🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍

🚨Super excited to share this new WP with Joohye Jeong, @adamberinsky.bsky.social, Soong & Parker. We ask a simple but extremely practical Q for survey researchers: 𝐃𝐨𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐬/𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐲? Answer: Not really, no. 👍

OUT TODAY! 🥳 A straightforward, non-technical guide to thinking like a quantitative social scientist. Written for students, journalists, and curious citizens. A lot of thought and heart went into this. I genuinely hope folks enjoy it!

TODAY IS THE DAY! 🥳 "Truth Addict" is officially out! If you/your students want to understand the logic of quantitative research, but w/o the math & jargon, then I'm 95% confident you'll enjoy this book 😉 Anything you can do to help spread the world would be SO appreciated! 🙏

🥹IT'S REAL!!! I can hold it in my hand! My best attempt to explain the logic of quantitative social-scientific research--I truly hope folks enjoy it! It's officially out Aug 4th, but can be pre-ordered at @ucpress.bsky.social now *at 30% off* with discount code 𝐔𝐂𝐏𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝟑𝟎. 👍

🥹IT'S REAL!!! I can hold it in my hand! My best attempt to explain the logic of quantitative social-scientific research--I truly hope folks enjoy it! It's officially out Aug 4th, but can be pre-ordered at @ucpress.bsky.social now *at 30% off* with discount code 𝐔𝐂𝐏𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝟑𝟎. 👍

👋 Attn: Stata users, a recording of my two-day virtual seminar "𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐚" is now available on demand at the Instats website. I cover lots of different graphs and various tips & tricks for prettier visualizations! 😁 instats.org/seminar/bett...

Better Data Visualizations in Stata - On-Demand Research Training | Instats

PhD-level seminar on Better Data Visualizations in Stata with John Kane . Live Q&A plus on‑demand access. Join via your university’s Instats membership or enroll directly.

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My very first book interview has just been published! 🥳 Thanks to Christina Gessler at the outstanding @academiclife.bsky.social podcast for featuring me! Available for pre-order at University of California Press site, plus get 30% off with code 𝐔𝐂𝐏𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐄𝟑𝟎 😁 open.substack.com/pub/christin...

Inside A Book: Truth Addict

The Academic Life Newsletter by Christina Gessler, Ph.D.

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So excited to be featured in this spectacular new edited volume! Many thanks to @profkarpo.bsky.social & Jeremy Pope for putting this together, and of course to my co-authors @lilymasonphd.bsky.social and @juliewronski.bsky.social ! 😊

💡For those who teach intro to stats, I wrote up a series of ungraded assignments I've been doing for years in my class. Students build a dataset of their favorite movies, and each assignment helps them develop a key skill. Hope you find it useful! (Incidentally, I also reveal some of my favs.)👇

Had the sudden urge to make a custom scatterplot, and what else could this lifelong New Yorker possibly make right now but this? 🤞🤞🤞 (p.s., 𝘳 = -0.16)

Happening this Monday morning! If you want to move beyond basic graphs in Stata, I hope to see you there! @statacorp.bsky.social

John V. Kane@uptonorwell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

👋 Happening in 1 week: my data visualization seminar with @instats.bsky.social. If you or your students use Stata and want to up your graph game, this is designed for you. June 8 and 9, 10am-2pm Eastern. Link 👇

👋 Happening in 1 week: my data visualization seminar with @instats.bsky.social. If you or your students use Stata and want to up your graph game, this is designed for you. June 8 and 9, 10am-2pm Eastern. Link 👇

🚨 Do you or your students use @statacorp.bsky.social? Want to learn some tricks for better graphs? If so, I'm hosting a seminar w/ @instats.bsky.social on June 8 and 9! Lots of tips, tricks & guidance for clearer, prettier data viz for descriptive & inferential analyses. Pls spread the word! 🙏

🎉🎉🎉NOW AVAILABLE for Pre-Order! 🥳 So much thought, time, energy and love went into writing this. For those kind enough to order it, I genuinely hope you enjoy and find value in it. I tried my best to write for those who want to learn how to do quant social science research.

Until next time, Palmer House lobby. You used to terrify me, but now I kind of enjoy you 😊 @mpsa.bsky.social

🚨New working paper w/ the legendary @cbwlezien.bsky.social! Lots of talk about inflation & voters' political views. But how well do voters actually understand info about inflation? We find that most citizens conflate changes in rates w/ changes in prices. This has important consequences...

Inflation Conflation: Our study reveals citizens' widespread tendency to conflate changes in the inflation rate with changes in prices. (@uptonorwell.bsky.social and @cbwlezien.bsky.social) preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...

🤩 The book has a cover! One step closer to being a real thing, floating around in the world, hopefully doing some good. Out August 4th via @ucpress.bsky.social 👍

ATTN: survey researchers: Just learned that Qualtrics now has an AI-powered prompt for encouraging respondents to give more detailed open-ended responses. 🤯 Could be a *really* simple and useful way to get better open-ended/qualitative data. 👍

🙏 Many sincere thanks to @sysilviakim.bsky.social & Brandon Ives at the Seoul Workshop for Empirical Research in Politics (SWERP) for inviting me to chat about null results in survey experiments. I loved it! If you would like to have me talk for your students/group, feel free to email/DM me! 😁

Happening tomorrow evening for US folks--𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝟑/𝟏𝟐 𝐚𝐭 𝟗𝐩𝐦 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧. I genuinely love this topic and hope you can join! 😁 @sysilviakim.bsky.social

John V. Kane@uptonorwell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Interested in survey experiments? I'll be giving a virtual talk on (false) null results in experiments--and how to protect against them--at SWERP on 3/13 (3/12 8pm EST). Hope to see you there, and thanks to @sysilviakim.bsky.social for inviting me! Link to join: swerp.netlify.app

I am excited about this new paper, Negativity & Misinformation, just out with @cbwlezien.bsky.social in @polcommjournal.bsky.social: "durable biases in information processing, by media organizations and humans more generally, can produce misinformation and misperceptions..." doi.org/10.1080/1058...

Negativity and Misinformation

There are large and growing bodies of research highlighting inaccuracies in news coverage. In this paper, we suggest that negativity biases account for a substantial portion of longstanding inaccur...

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Finally had some inspiration to play with the 'colorpalettes' package in @statacorp.bsky.social. Tried out one of the Wes Anderson palettes (originally made for R, I believe) and now I feel like I've been missing out for the past several years... 😕

🚨 Interested in survey experiments? I'll be giving a virtual talk on (false) null results in experiments--and how to protect against them--at SWERP on 3/13 (3/12 8pm EST). Hope to see you there, and thanks to @sysilviakim.bsky.social for inviting me! Link to join: swerp.netlify.app

🥳 Well, the small milestone has arrived. It's nowhere near many others, but it would've been impossible for me to imagine ever happening when I first started the PhD With the kids having school canceled today & tomorrow after a 9-day vacation, this is a nice gift. Thx citers!!!

🚨Fully revamped paper with @iganson.bsky.social: We study levels of, and partisan differences in, "unconditional political bias" (UPB). This is a partisan's own admission that *nothing* a politician could do would lower their support for that politician.

Had a 𝐰𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐥 time presenting on survey experiments & null results in @semrasevi.bsky.social's class at U of Toronto! Such great student questions! 🚨If you would like me to present in your course, please feel free to reach out--I truly love talking w/ others about this topic!😁