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Alex Tolkin
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Postdoc at Duke Initiative on Survey Methodology/The Polarization Lab
https://alextolkin.github.io/
Optimistically it will be prolific or connect or whoever that designs the apps and the cost of design/maintenance will be reflected in the provider having a larger fee per respondent.

But still grim; and who knows what non-academic polling will look like.
November 19, 2025 at 4:40 PM
At the Duke polarization lab respondents answer surveys on an app they download, and the surveys are populated via API calls to qualtrics. Of course that is a massive lift compared to just posting a qualtrics link.
November 19, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I wonder if the future is a more closed environment for survey provides to administer surveys; i.e, people on prolific or other providers download an app which they take surveys on rather than using a browser.
November 19, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I have found that the only reliable way to cancel xfinity service is to go, in person, to an xfinity store and camp yourself there until you can verify with an employee that your service has been canceled. The chats waste your time and on the phone they lie about cancelling service. It's insanity.
August 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Blaise Bailey Finnegan III by GY!BE maybe?
June 9, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Hahaha. You've been getting a rough edit, but it's been very fun to watch this season.
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 AM
They use multiple approaches to measure extremism; the main one is the Hall-Snyder scores in this paper www.andrewbenjaminhall.com/Hall_Snyder_.... The basic idea of such scores is political donations are public, so you can use info on donors to estimate extremity of the winning vs losing candidate.
www.andrewbenjaminhall.com
March 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
I think this is the most baffling trade I have ever seen in my life. Luka's medical report must look like Embiid's for this to make any sense at all.
February 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM
I don't think this is actually going to work, but it's definitely up there as one of the most entertaining moves.
December 5, 2024 at 3:30 AM
270$ tho :/
November 27, 2024 at 1:43 AM
I'm surprised Embiid is at 9 given his play this season. I understand giving players the benefit of the doubt based on past performance, but Embiid seems genuinely hurt and limited. and I'm concerned this season will be the first of a Kawhi-esque diminishment for Embiid and he shouldn't be top 10.
November 20, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Please add thanks!
November 20, 2024 at 5:06 PM
My guess is Trump has higher appeal among irregular voters who did not vote in the midterms, but we'll need to wait for 2026 to see how that pans out.
November 6, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Same thing I have seen with reactions to Supreme Court controversies (Kavanaugh/Dobbs); once you account for sexism, gender effect disappears.
November 6, 2024 at 12:38 AM
This is notably different from findings on sports and political participation. In Running From Office: Why Young Americans are Turned Off to Politics, Lawless and Fox found that young Americans who play sports were more politically engaged. I would speculate that's because sports are face-to-face?
September 26, 2023 at 4:30 PM