Also note that most consults I do are not with political scientists because this is for the whole university.

I think my experience is due to the same trends you are describing though - qual researchers attempting to rebrand as mixed-methods because they think that is more appealing.

I am in academia I'm part of a provost-level initiative to do consulting for Duke faculty and graduate students.

Really? I'm coming from this from the other perspective, as someone who does consultations on survey methodology, and the mixed-methods people I interact with have been exclusively qual researchers who want to add a survey experiment to appeal to a broader audience.

Optimistically it will be prolific or connect or whoever that designs the apps and the cost of design/maintenance will be reflected in the provider having a larger fee per respondent.

But still grim; and who knows what non-academic polling will look like.

At the Duke polarization lab respondents answer surveys on an app they download, and the surveys are populated via API calls to qualtrics. Of course that is a massive lift compared to just posting a qualtrics link.

I wonder if the future is a more closed environment for survey provides to administer surveys; i.e, people on prolific or other providers download an app which they take surveys on rather than using a browser.

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Blaise Bailey Finnegan III by GY!BE maybe?

Hahaha. You've been getting a rough edit, but it's been very fun to watch this season.

They use multiple approaches to measure extremism; the main one is the Hall-Snyder scores in this paper www.andrewbenjaminhall.com/Hall_Snyder_.... The basic idea of such scores is political donations are public, so you can use info on donors to estimate extremity of the winning vs losing candidate.

I think this is the most baffling trade I have ever seen in my life. Luka's medical report must look like Embiid's for this to make any sense at all.

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I don't think this is actually going to work, but it's definitely up there as one of the most entertaining moves.

270$ tho :/

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I'm surprised Embiid is at 9 given his play this season. I understand giving players the benefit of the doubt based on past performance, but Embiid seems genuinely hurt and limited. and I'm concerned this season will be the first of a Kawhi-esque diminishment for Embiid and he shouldn't be top 10.

Please add thanks!

My guess is Trump has higher appeal among irregular voters who did not vote in the midterms, but we'll need to wait for 2026 to see how that pans out.

Same thing I have seen with reactions to Supreme Court controversies (Kavanaugh/Dobbs); once you account for sexism, gender effect disappears.

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This is notably different from findings on sports and political participation. In Running From Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics, Lawless and Fox found that young Americans who play sports were more politically engaged. I would speculate that's because sports are face-to-face?