@PRL_Tweets has been collecting yougov data for over 2 years. Here is the raw (unweighted) makeup of party identity in the sample over time. Dems have been less likely to be in the survey, whiles Reps have been more likely.
Yphtach Lelkes
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Yphtach Lelkes
@ylelkes
associate prof, UPenn. political communication, pol psych, public opinion. retweet means we're best friends now.
- Roughly half of people around the world are willing to trade democracy for lower crime and economic prosperity osf.io/preprints/osf/…
Replying to @DLeonhardtConsider this chart, from a NYT/Siena poll. Undecided voters are much more focused on economic issues than democracy: - what an incredible resource. e.g., the number of people who get no or minimal news from television has increased by 88 million over the past 8 years.
.@csspenn, led by Prof. @duncanjwatts has a launched a new resource for understanding media dynamics - a data dashboard on news consumption in the U.S. Explore trends, track shifts, & stay informed about the evolving landscape of information dissemination: bit.ly/4cdXbnt - “You seem to really struggle with reshaping data from long to wide”Pretty cool. Ask ChatGPT “From all of our interactions what is one thing that you can tell me about myself that I may not know about myself”
- in 2022, young people who said they voted early tended to do so pretty late:
- asking survey respondents to justify their responses occasionally leads me to question the entire endeavor
- 1/ Why do people pile on to politically offensive speech online, fueling online firestorms? Our study (@chloeahn1016, @m_levendusky) in PNAS Nexus finds that these actions are less about being offended and more about signaling partisan identity and conforming to group norms. 🧵
- New with the amazing @niccdias and Jake Pearl: American partisans under-estimate the diversity of each party's attitudes, and these diversity perceptions predict out-party hostility. However, we see little evidence that partisans over-estimate out-party extremity.#OpenAccess from @PSRMJournal - American partisans vastly under-estimate the diversity of other partisans’ policy attitudes - cup.org/3XTF3eg - @niccdias, @ylelkes & Jacob Pearl #FirstView
- Replying to @ylelkesparty id is measured in a demographic survey yougov administers when respondents join the panel (and occasionally updates). I have no idea if this generalizes beyond our panel
- Attitudes towards Israel and Gaza reflect generational divides, not racial ones. @dhopkins1776 and Gall Sigler thedp.com/article/2024/0…
- when i see stuff like this, my immediately inclination is measurement errorAmazing chart. 1. Teens' self-reported relationship with parents is near an all-time high and has generally increased since 2000 2. Teen satisfaction with life generally rose in between 1990 and 2008 and went straight down 2012-2020 via @jean_twenge, @JonHaidt
- For those teaching undergrad research methods, this is a nice example of seeing an empirical pattern (pedestrian deaths) then systematically testing hypotheses
