Chano Arreguin

AI presents a fundamental threat to our ability to use polls to assess public opinion. Bad actors who are able to infiltrate panels can flip close election polls for less than the cost of a Starbucks coffee. Models will also infer and confirm hypotheses in experiments. Current quality checks fail. Dark times for survey work.

The academe has for a long time had a severely neglected social class problem. "Children from low-SES homes were already severely underrepresented [in the academe]." "Scientists from high-SES families have 38% higher odds of becoming stars." nber.org/papers/w33063

False positive and false negative are lovely, self-explanatory terms. I see no reason for anyone to ever say Type 1 and Type 2 error when strictly better alternatives are available. And I refuse to look up which is which.

Gino's case against us has been dismissed. Scientists cannot effectively sue other scientists for exposing fraud/errors in their work. Those who work to correct the scientific record can sleep better tonight. Those who don’t want it corrected, well, I don’t care how they sleep.

@Nolan_Mc Makes a lot of sense. I often find too much lit distracting from what the author is arguing, & would prefer to know what they're arguing/contributing 1st, then have their results situated in the lit. A decent intro could def cover relevant background info needed for argument.

I believe that in academic papers the literature reviews should be much shorter and come after the theoretical/empirical analysis.

Thanks to our amazing team and the leadership of @KishanMBhakta, the Political Science Graduate Student Association is Rice's Graduate Organization of the Year! Incredibly proud of what we've achieved together during the last year 🙌

@KishanMBhakta @marquesgz Who knew the sun could shine so bright in Chicago 🌞 🫶

Had a wonderful time in Chicago for #MPSA2024! (conference not actually pictured but at least we got this gem of a photo feat. @marquesgz 😂)

Absolutely thrilled to have participated and even more so to have won the Rebecca Morton poster award! A huge thank you to the committee members for this incredible honor, and to @NYUpolitics for organizing such a fantastic conference!!

Debt commission bill that would create bipartisan panel to propose ways to lower deficit is hated by the right that sees it as Trojan horse to raise taxes & by the left that sees it as Trojan horse to cut entitlements. And hence we have a 1.5 trillion deficit during good economy.

You don't demonstrate your seriousness that Trump is an existential threat to democracy by going through the motions to renominate an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who 75% of voters think is too old without giving anyone a choice because that's just how things are done.

biden mixed up sisi and amlo macron and mitterrand trump mixed up orban and erdogan haley and pelosi they’re both doing it more and more often can’t write a story on mental acuity in the presidential race and only focus on biden

It's hard to overstate how important a switch away from beef and lamb would be in terms of environmental impact. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Lucky to have my research covered by @PsyPost who did a great job outlining the key points!

🚨My 1st publication!🚨 I theorize & test an important but underexplored link between affective partisanship & partisan geographic sorting. I show how out-party negative affect influences partisans' perceptions of finding romantic partners & willingness to move.

@carlislerainey @dingding_peng Another similar piece!

Here's a great paper from Julia Rohrer (@dingding_peng) that I like to assign in my classes. It's more general than this, but I assign it to answer "when can we interpret regression coefficient estimates as causal effects?" doi.org/10.1177/251524…

It seems like Qualtrics could play an important role in limiting researcher fraud. As a researcher, I would love to be able to post a data file that is somehow certified by Qualtrics as the original file (maybe it is posted by Qualtrics).

@keithschnak This guy

Do people ever really change? A massive new meta-analysis says no—at least when it comes to the differences between us. Despite some fluctuations in adolescence and early adulthood, personality differences among adults are remarkably stable over time. psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-79…

@JoeHCQ1 @kareem_carr Even then... sometimes, taking on a bit of student debt is a safer or more rational option than taking some entrepreneurial leap. At least for those who complete college.

@JoeHCQ1 @kareem_carr My point is that there are ppl who chose the college route who would have loved to have taken the risk but literally couldn't afford to take it. Not that everyone should take the 4yr uni route and incur debt. There are alt options like starting w/community college.

why do americans shit on going to college so much? my country doesn’t have universities and to me it’s astounding that one country can have so many of these factories of innovation. if you don’t want harvard, mit, stanford and the others, please give them to the rest of us!