Johnny Runge

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Johnny Runge

Johnny Runge

@JohnnyRunge

Senior Research Fellow @policyatkings. Research Associate @ESCoEorg. Research & evaluation, e.g. on employment, education, public understanding of economy.

London انضم Ağustos 2013
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ESCoE@ESCoEorg·
"If people don’t know where their information comes from, they can’t judge its reliability." @JohnnyRunge in @signmagazine on trusting stats - from baby names to house moves - and how official stats should respond: doi.org/10.1093/jrssig… ESCoE work: tinyurl.com/a4zr89un
Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge

🚨Official stats are not just for stats geeks! My piece in @signmagazine shows people often use stats for personal decisions without realising. I argue we must make the hidden use visible, and prioritise public users. Based on our @policyatkings research for @StatsRegulation.

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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
🚨Official stats are not just for stats geeks! My piece in @signmagazine shows people often use stats for personal decisions without realising. I argue we must make the hidden use visible, and prioritise public users. Based on our @policyatkings research for @StatsRegulation.
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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
Please feel free to send me a DM or email, if you have questions!
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Chris Giles@ChrisGiles_·
Not sure there is much point in @ons publishing employment and unemployment figures. They’re so flawed, might as well just use a random number generator
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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
@arthurturrell This is a really interesting idea. My (random) thoughts are: people have much better pre-existing understanding of Census than, say, LFS. So, I imagine, to be effective, a campaign needs to focus a bit more on why this is important than in Census.
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Arthur Turrell
Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell·
I think this approach worked really well for the UK Census. It's not free, but then neither are other options to increase response rates. And most agree we do need to tackle this for the good of decision making based on survey data.
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Arthur Turrell
Arthur Turrell@arthurturrell·
Stats offices around the world face declining response rates. Big problem if, like me, you think data on, say, the labour force is critical national infrastructure. What to do? IMO an underexplored option is national ad campaigns explaining importance of responding to surveys...
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Susannah Hume@SusSumHum·
So pleased and proud that @policyatkings had two projects funded through this round, with wonderful partners @BrilliantClub and @SimonCommScot .
UK Research and Innovation@UKRI_News

We are investing £9.7m to tackle regional disparities across the UK. The funding will go to 17 projects aimed at ensuring everyone in the UK has a path to economic success and personal wellbeing, regardless of where they live. See more: orlo.uk/jsrBf

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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
@thomasforth I am mildly interested at the moment, but strongly in favour of properly, *independently* and robustly evaluating it, ie if something like what Demos suggests happens, get some people in who are not campaigners, to do evaluation.
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Tom Forth
Tom Forth@thomasforth·
I reckon I'll just retweet every tweet dunking on the "more citizens assembly type stuff" report by Demos. Good on them for going through it in detail. I think my evolution on the topic is now complete. From mildly interested to properly investigating to now strongly against.
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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
And… with my @policyatkings evaluation hat on: it is important to embed evaluation of programme of public participation, to ensure that it, indeed, does what it says on the tin, ie improve trust etc. Else, it may backfire! @SusSumHum. Great report @MiriamLevin1 @Demos.
Miriam Levin@MiriamLevin1

Excited to publish @Demos Citizens' White Paper today, with @involveUK. It sets out why, when and how the govt should embed public participation in national policy making if it wants to win back trust and make policies that work for people. demos.co.uk/research/citiz… 🧵👇

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Miriam Levin
Miriam Levin@MiriamLevin1·
Excited to publish @Demos Citizens' White Paper today, with @involveUK. It sets out why, when and how the govt should embed public participation in national policy making if it wants to win back trust and make policies that work for people. demos.co.uk/research/citiz… 🧵👇
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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
It was a pleasure to be on @StatsRegulation panel at @ESCoEorg conference. Each of panelists, incl me, contributed to blog below, w their reflections on communicating statistical uncertainty. Important topic, in context of recent GDP revisions & issues w labour market data.
ESCoE@ESCoEorg

After criticism of GDP revisions in 2023, an ESCoE Conference session explored communicating statistical uncertainty. Read reflections from panellists.➡️tinyurl.com/5d2ttdme @ONSfocus @StatsRegulation @ChrisGiles_ @JohnnyRunge

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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
@jburnmurdoch I know this is kinda part of your argument - i.e., that people don't view the world in right/left wing terms - but I am referring to the substantial proportion of "don't knows" and lack of knowledge about what right/left wing actually is
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John Burn-Murdoch
John Burn-Murdoch@jburnmurdoch·
Essential chart from the new mega report on the general election by @Moreincommon_ The vast majority of people — including Reform voters — said the Tories lost because they were incompetent, not because they were too left or right wing.
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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
@jburnmurdoch Also, if you think they talked up the right game, but didn't implement it well, is that always incompetence? Surely there are other reasons in-between... (e.g., external factors, such as pandemic, cost of living crisis, etc.)
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Johnny Runge@JohnnyRunge·
@jburnmurdoch I know you are logically right. But I just think many will see that as someone on the left wing who are too left wing (e.g. Corbyn), rather than someone on the right who is not quite right enough. The relative is surely not a good survey question strategy?
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