Jesse Richman
@JesseRichman
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Political Science professor.
Norfolk, VA
Joined May 2010
RT @rhonda_harbison: Update the man admits to being paid by the Kremlin.Pro-Trump influencer AlphaFox78 says Russia….
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An American social media influencer said he was paid $100 by a pro-Kremlin propagandist to post a fake video of Haitian immigrants claiming to vote in the US presidential election. The payment was...
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RT @GPIS_ODU: Congratulations to our amazing MA and PhD graduates! Best of luck with your new adventures!
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Community notes is beginning to get the attention it likely ought.
ft.com
The strength of the platform’s Community Notes feature is that it works through consensus
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RT @forecast_MDPI: 👏#mdpiforecasting Article. Assessing Spurious #Correlations in Big Search #Data. #Spuriouscorre….
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2/2 Why quantify spurious correlations? "First, analysts can make progress toward accurate inference. Second, they can avoid unwarranted credulity. Third, they can demand appropriate disclosure from the study authors.".
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Just published: article with Ryan Roberts on the magnitude of the problem of spurious correlations in big search data. Completely spurious correlations of up to 0.97 or 0.98 (for some distributions) pose a major challenge for naive machine learning.
mdpi.com
Big search data offers the opportunity to identify new and potentially real-time measures and predictors of important political, geographic, social, cultural, economic, and epidemiological phenomena,...
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Inaccurate Politicians: Elected Representatives’ Estimations of Public Opinion in Four Countries | The Journal of Politics
journals.uchicago.edu
Knowledge of what voters prefer is central to several theories of democratic representation and accountability. Despite this, we know little in a comparative sense of how well politicians know...
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RT @bshor: This is an amazing resource that Chris and Chris have put together, that scholars will be using for years to come. I know how ch….
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Pelosi assault is the latest example of the political violence that has become too common in this country. How do we take the temperature down? Key is to pierce conspiracy theory information bubbles with rebuttals.
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Yes. This is one of the ways Republicans may misinterpret the outcome.
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First time I've ever retweeted either Cruz or Warren. But both are right about the problem, even if the solution needs more thought. We need to find creative ways to break echo chambers without censorship. Facebook should set up a way for people to suggest post rebuttals.
First time I’ve ever retweeted @ewarren But she’s right—Big Tech has way too much power to silence Free Speech. They shouldn’t be censoring Warren, or anybody else. A serious threat to our democracy.
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My response to recent attention on the 2014 non-citizen voting study
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RT @steiny: An appeal to everyone I know who works at Twitter, Facebook, Google etc, and for the people who influence them .
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#GOPDebate How to make the debates better.
washingtonpost.com
Debates would become more informative and exciting at the same time.
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