@indubioproreto
PostDoctoral Researcher in Political Science: Elections, Political Behavior, Political Parties, Generational Effects. @Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin @humboldtuni.bsky.social | PhD @IPZ Zurich (he/him)
Ja, also die Durchschnittswerte für die Altersgruppen sind averaged über alle Länder. Daraus kann man leider absolut gar nichts ableiten, weil das massiv verzerrt ist durch Länder, die viele junge Menschen haben (also Indonesien, Thailand, Indien, etc.).
In Ländern wie Schweden kommt problematisch dazu, dass die Gruppe der als Gen-Z definierten Männer dann einfach auch winzig klein ist, bei repräsentativem Sample und n=500.
Da Europäische Länder massiv ältere Gesellschaften haben als Länder wie Südafrika, Indien, Thailand, oder Indonesien, dies aber nicht korrigiert wird, kann man aus den Altersunterschieden eigentlich absolut nichts rauslesen, da dies maximal verzerrt ist von unterschiedlichen Kontexten.
Die Ländergrösse ist eigentlich nicht das Problem der Studie, da die Samples in den Ländern etwa gleich gross sind. Aber das Problem ist, dass die Länder sehr unterschiedliche Altersstrukturen aufweisen, diese jedoch durch fehlende Gewichtung nicht gegenkorrigiert wurden.
It is just straight dangerous to put up such narratives when you only present average values across 29 completely different countries with different age structures and *DON'T ADJUST* for this.
Deleting X and only posting on Bluesky was a great decision, not only because X seems to be a bad place but also because it’s so boring here.
My feed here is mostly middle aged men posting way too many very uninteresting details about their lives. Brings my scrolling time basically down to zero.
Yes, fully understood! My comments stem from a more general impression when I hear/read people talking/writing about Swiss politics
And while the direct democratic system might have helped mitigate certain conflicts, it also made it possible for Switzerland to become a pioneer in far-right politics, with deeply xenophobic anti-immigration initiatives already present in the early 1970s and continuing to the present day.
What strikes me the most is how many people do not seem to be aware of how deeply exclusionist Switzerland's democracy has always been - sometimes "by design" (female suffrage, voting rights for foreigners, disabled people), sometimes "by consequence" (low turnout, low responsiveness).
It's actually quite interesting how many fundamental misperceptions exist about the Swiss political system and its institutions.
"Switzerland highly resilient to populism and polarization"
*cries bitterly in Swiss*
Did that particular scholar also put up the beaver propaganda in my neighborhood?
What is going on with SPD and CDU voters disliking beavers? :(
Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.
This 👇 and this also applies to most European countries
New working paper!
I examine whether exposure to local unemployment during adolescence shapes immigration attitudes in adulthood, focusing on the long-term imprint of early economic insecurity
doi.org/10.31235/osf...
www.bern.ch/mediencenter...
For context: There is debate about whether the fountain indeed portrays an antisemitic stereotype, and since 2024, the city of Bern also mentions this right at the fountain.
Since I have grown up in a country where this fountain (literally called "Child-eater fountain") stands in the middle of its capital city, I am very much intrigued to learn how these findings might travel to other contexts...
The UK wakes up to the reality of multi-party democracy. The reality of pretty much all other democracies in Europe. Let‘s see if British politics and media realize that they could actually learn something from other countries that goes beyond shallow narratives like the “Danish strategy”
🧵on my new paper "Synthetic personas distort the structure of human belief systems" w Roberto Cerina I'm v excited about...
🚨 Do synthetic samples look like human samples?
We compare 28 LLMs to the 2024 General Social Survey (GSS) to find out + develop host of diagnostics...
I think of these tasks when people are adamantly anti-AI in research. This task before was the academic equivalent of processing grain before the invention of the thresher. Nobody will mourn the loss of this type of work.
This is really fascinating data:
"To summarize the key results, Switzerland’s private wealth is growing faster than incomes, and it is highly concentrated among the very wealthy and the elderly. Wealth is transferred across generations increasingly late in heirs’ lives."
New data release. Selects 2023 Panel Survey (Waves 1–5)
The panel follows the same respondents from the 2023 election campaign to 2027, offering unique longitudinal insights into Swiss political attitudes & behaviour.
👉 Dataset: doi.org/10.48573/4h6...
👉 Selects: forscenter.ch/projects/sel...
Problem about the loneliness epidemic is, it's everywhere except in representative survey data. Let's look at where the claim comes from. 1/
I have one, why did you not ask :(
Auch an die anwesenden Soziolog:innen nochmal die Bitte, sich stärker an der Wertschöpfung, Produktion und Innovation in Deutschland zu beteiligen
And again: How can you read such a proposal and still think the SVP would be less radical than other far-right parties (or label them something like "national conservative")?
Not only would this deeply xenophobic and dangerous initiative have drastic and severe inhumane consequences if it would be accepted, but again will non-white Swiss people have to endure another racist public election campaign - like many before.
ICYMI: in the past week, we released the YOUMEM dataset — with survey responses from 5000+ members of 12 youth wings.
It is the largest comparative study of youth wing members to date.
It is also, we believe, the largest comparative party membership survey dataset ever made publicly available.
We‘re very excited for the next edition of the Summer School for Women* in Political Methodology in Mannheim! ✨
Join us and apply until 1 March!
More info in @melinscribe.bsky.social‘s thread below and here: summerschoolwpm.org
Application form: sosci.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/wpm/
