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New preprint out 🤘 Using data from 31,000 ICCs, 260,000 respondents, 6,460 interviewers, 28 countries and 10 rounds of the European Social Survey we ask which types of questions are more prone to interviewer effects. doi.org/10.31235/osf.i…

Our new paper is out! It compares different approaches to fine-tune a transformer model for a long-running classification task. doi.org/10.1007/s42979…

Editors sending out rejection letters right before Christmas..love ya 😀

Long but worthy and important read about how streaming is destroying our movie culture nplusonemag.com/issue-49/essay…

I wrote the cover story of the February issue of The Atlantic. It builds on a lot of reporting I did throughout 2024, and I'm really proud of it. It’s called: THE ANTI-SOCIAL CENTURY The thesis: Rising solitude is the most important social fact in American life today. The

R.I.P. David Lynch, January 20, 1946 — January 2025. Here is Angelo Badalamenti sharing his and David’s composition process for “Twin Peaks.”

“Who gives a fucking shit how long a scene is?” - David Lynch

I'll give a talk tomorrow about the current polling climate in Hungary in a WAPOR webinar

It costs $12,690.00 to publish open access at Nature. They are literally uploading a PDF file.

Lifestyle is a stronger predictor of aging and mortality than genetics. A new Nature study of ~500,000 people found: 🎯 17% of mortality variation was linked to lifestyle (exposome). 🧬 <2% of was explained by genetics. Here’s what you need to know 👇🧵 1/10

New pod: The end of reading Student reading scores are plummeting. Elite-college students say they can't read full books. Leisure reading has declined >30% in this century. And, as Joe Weisenthal says, it's all happening as US culture swings back to "orality." What's going on?

New paper out in Scientific Reports with Ádám Stefkovics. We examined how willingness to share digital data correlates with actual behavior in a data donation setting. Spoiler: We found only a moderate correlation. rdcu.be/ed3e4

Look at the distribution of z-values from medical research!

Out now! Dömötör Gere, Dávid Kollár & Ádám Stefkovics Századvég Foundation in their latest article discuss Who's left, who's right? Examining cross-national variations in the use of the left–right scale with anchoring vignettes link.springer.com/article/10.105…

Just arrived to the AAPOR-WAPOR conferences in St. Louis. Looking for forward to meet friends 🥳 aapor WAPOR

"Trust in Election Polls" 🗳️📊 Ádám Stefkovics Ádám Stefkovics & Dömötör Gere explore how trust in polls depends on the source institution and perceived realism. In Hungary, accurate results lead to higher trust. 🔗 Read more: bit.ly/4kYmi1Q

New paper:"Experimental Evidence on the (Limited) Influence of Reputable Media Outlets" w/Bharat Anand, Kiran Misra, Sascha Riaz at GaryKing.org/reputable