

Marcel Roman
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@mfrmarcel
Assistant Professor of Government @ Harvard. Researching identity, race, and immigration.





For Democrats, the biggest gains from moving to the middle came on social/cultural issues like affirmative action (+4.5pp) and LGBTQ issues—where the party's standard positions are furthest from the median voter.




Laura Loomer flew to India. Before she left she deleted all of her anti-Indian tweets. Thousands of them. Gone. She thought nobody would notice. An Indian uncle noticed. He read them back to her on camera. Every one. Her own words. Her own bigotry. Directed at the people whose country she was visiting as a guest. This is the woman who has the personal cell phone number of the President of the United States. This is the woman who shaped immigration policy from Mar-a-Lago. She deleted the evidence before crossing the border. The internet is forever. The uncle is a hero.






When you collect data online, are the results from humans or AI? In a project led by Booth PhD student Grace Zhang, we estimate the prevalence of AI agents on commonly used survey platforms: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵








