Data Scientist: Should You Trust the 2020 Election Polls? Yes, but …
Mansueto Institute data scientist Nicholas Marchio breaks down election forecasting. Polling data is an essential factor in every election cycle. Pundits use it to forecast…
Mansueto Institute data scientist Nicholas Marchio breaks down election forecasting. Polling data is an essential factor in every election cycle. Pundits use it to forecast…
Watchdog report finds political scientists deeply concerned about the president’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power after the election. On the eve…
“When ideals and policies matter less than dominating foes, government becomes dysfunctional,” researchers say. The bitter polarization between the Republican and Democratic parties in the…
Experts analyze a global trend: democratic governments that collapse from within while maintaining a veneer of legitimacy. When the Cold War ended in the early…
Simulations from Columbia University researchers show a slight bias toward Trump but less of a tilt than in the 2016 election. Trump’s 2016 victory in…
MIT professor’s study quantifies how many mail-in ballots became “lost votes” in the 2016 U.S. federal election. In elections, every vote counts. Or should count….
When It Comes to Supporting Candidates, Ideology Trumps Race and Gender Prejudiced people will still vote for Black and female politicians, as long as ideologies…
Study finds funny stuff reduces credibility and support. Political candidates’ use of humor on social media could sometimes backfire on them with potential supporters, new…
New research shows real-time social media data may have been a source of military intelligence for the Kremlin and potentially other governments. Online discourse by…
The research published in the journal Sex Roles identifies sports fans as a significant source of resistance to transgender participation on sports teams that match…
Princeton researchers find that division of labor and political polarization may be driven by the same processes in ant societies. Could the division of labor…