Everyone knows the terms hawks and doves re: military attitudes. I learned today that some Kennedy School types coined "owls" in the 80s for a center position. But has anyone ever heard of "gulls"? Found in a 1980s banner point. Curious if it was just for the 4 way split or really used.
If you were/are a participant in the US rave scene, please consider submitting your oral history at:
ravehistory.org
Also see rave history maps for some major cities here: ravehistory.org/maps
This is the kind of critical thinking AI will take from us.
That would be my alternative explanation for the change in where groups fall between 2008 and 2012, for instance. Perhaps the position of the "illegal aliens" item helps.
Thanks for doing this! I've noodled with these structures before so love seeing something much more thoughtful put together. Have you looked at how questionnaire design affects the trend here? The race FTs are (nearly) always on their own and, after 08, are self-administered while the others aren't.
wow. looks great. my mind immediately goes in two directions: Endo on Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty and (but ofc!) Voegelin's Ecumenic Age
Bring back shame (serving 12oz pours as pints)
Love a good typo.
Focusing in on 2024 battlegrounds offers some interesting context for national trends in turnout differences.
Yeah and it was visible in cycle in polling too, so not sure what to make of OP.
SurveyMonkey remains my favorite bit of path dependence in branding.
Increasingly convinced the second dimension to party for a lot of public opinion work is more likely response set. Something seems off if a specific scale has > 70% of variance in common with a simple tally of all the times respondents "agreed" to items in a questionnaire, regardless of content.
My dog, to me, wanting snacks.
Looking forward to MPSA this week, aka my annual trip to Dovetail.
For folks going, please say hey! Roadshowing several new projects.
Had a blast joining the Science of Politics podcast to discuss my forthcoming book: Rural Pain, Republican Gain. Thank you @mattgrossmann.bsky.social for the invite!
pal just mentioned having to buy tails for his wedding and I asked if the bride would be dressed as Knuckles, suspect I'll be riding that high for 12-24 hours
Appreciate the Fox folks' concern with the Schwarbomb sundae.
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Some personal news
Anyone here know of quiet things to do in Krakow or Warsaw, Poland. My parents are traveling there right now and I think they need something more relaxed to do.
"[T]raditionalism has emerged as a catalytic school of thought. Reactionaries are propelling events...If we want to understand where all of this is taking us, we need to understand what’s driving them and where they get their beliefs."
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
If you are new to Rasch psychometrics, you will find a fair amount of resources and analysis examples here: pgmj.github.io/raschrvignet...
Dang no love for deinonychus?
- REVIEWS "There is an incredible amount of totally new information in this book, even for those of us who know the history of how quickly hops came and went in Wisconsin. However, it will sit on the easy-to-reach section of my hops bookshelf because of what we learn about the lives of the farmers who cultivated the hops and the laborers who picked them. Somehow, Jennifer Jordan convinced ghosts to share their secrets." Stan Hieronymus, author of Brewing Local
The green and gold cover of a book called Beer Ghosts: In Search of Lost Hops and the Women Who Grew Them
Excited and grateful to see the first blurb for Beer Ghosts, from an eminent knower of hops. We also set the date today for a fall hop history day at the local living history museum, picking hops, a little book talk, ending with fiddlers and beers by lantern light. 🍻👻📚🎻🌾🌿
Personal request:
Doing my semi-regular golf trip with a couple Bay Area friends in Park City, Utah in June (my 1st trip to state).
Appreciate any recs (golf courses, food, drink, other stuff to do)
Same here. And we have MPSA papers that need finishing!
Surprise tornadoes in Kansas yesterday. Constant forecast flip flopping in fall and winter. Subpar hurricane intensity forecasts in 2025. The Trump regime’s DOGE cuts have had a long lasting effect.
DId Taylor Swift kill a bunch of people?
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There's still time to submit your ideas for the ANES 2026 Pilot Study. Suggestions of any level of detail are welcome. Ideas should be submitted to ANES as a Word document by 5pm EST on Friday, April 17. Read more about the request:
electionstudies.org/anes-announc...
